blasphemia

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βλασφημία (blasphēmía, “slander, blasphemy”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /blasˈpʰeː.mi.a/, [bɫ̪äs̠ˈpʰeːmiä]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /blasˈfe.mi.a/, [bläsˈfɛːmiä]

Noun

blasphēmia f (genitive blasphēmiae); first declension (Ecclesiastical Latin)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	blasphēmia	blasphēmiae
Genitive	blasphēmiae	blasphēmiārum
Dative	blasphēmiae	blasphēmiīs
Accusative	blasphēmiam	blasphēmiās
Ablative	blasphēmiā	blasphēmiīs
Vocative	blasphēmia	blasphēmiae

Related terms

blasphēmō

Descendants

→ Catalan: blasfèmia
→ Dutch: blasfemie
Old French: blastenge, → blasfemie
- → English: blasphemy
- French: blasphémie
→ German: Blasphemie
→ Irish: blaisféim
Italian: bestemmia, → blasfemia
Old Occitan: blastenh
→ Polish: blasfemia
→ Portuguese: blasfémia
Romanian: blestem, → blasfemie
→ Romansch: blasfemia
→ Spanish: blasfemia

References

“blasphemia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
blasphemia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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