nefando
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Italian
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]nefando (feminine nefanda, masculine plural nefandi, feminine plural nefande)
- base, vile, nefandous, wicked
- 1947, Primo Levi, “Il viaggio”, in Se questo è un uomo [If This Is a Man], Torino: Einaudi, published 1987, →ISBN, page 14:
- Ognuno si congedò dalla vita nel modo che più gli si addiceva. Alcuni pregarono, altri bevvero oltre misura, altri si inebriarono di nefanda ultima passione.
- Everyone took leave of life in the way that best suited him. Some preyed, others drank too heavily, others got drunk on the last vile passion.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- nefando in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
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[edit]nefandō
Portuguese
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[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin nefandus.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]nefando (feminine nefanda, masculine plural nefandos, feminine plural nefandas)
Further reading
[edit]- “nefando”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nefando (feminine nefanda, masculine plural nefandos, feminine plural nefandas)
Further reading
[edit]- “nefando”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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