vendetta

See also: Vendetta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian vendetta (“revenge”), from Latin vindicta. See vindicate, avenge.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vænˈdɛtə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /vɛnˈdɛtə/, [vɛnˈdɛɾə], [vənˈdɛɾə]
• Rhymes: -ɛtə

Noun

vendetta (plural vendettas or vendette)

1. Revenge.
2. A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans, or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged: a blood feud.
3. (often preceded by personal) A motivational grudge against a person or faction, which may or may not be reciprocated; the state of having it in for someone.

Derived terms

• vendettist

Translations

bitter, destructive feud in which each injury is revenged

• Albanian: gjakmarrje (sq) f
• Armenian: արյան վրիժառություն (aryan vrižaṙutʻyun), վենդետա (hy) (vendeta)
• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Chechen: чӏир (čʼir)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 仇殺／仇杀 (zh) (chóushā), 互相傷害／互相伤害, 以怨報怨／以怨报怨

• Corsican: vindetta f, vendetta f
• Czech: vendeta (cs) f, krevní msta m
• Danish: blodhævn c
• Dutch: vete (nl) f or m, vendetta (nl) f or m, bloedwraak (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: venĝiro
• Estonian: vendeta, veritasu
• Finnish: verikosto (fi)
• French: vendetta (fr) f
• Georgian: სისხლის აღება (sisxlis aɣeba), ვენდეტა (vendeṭa)
• German: Blutfehde f, Vendetta (de) f
• Greek: βεντέτα (el) f (ventéta)
• Hungarian: vérbosszú (hu)
• Icelandic: blóðhefnd f
• Ido: vendetta (io)
• Italian: faida (it) f
• Japanese: 確執 (ja) (かくしつ, kakushitsu), フェーデ (fēde)
• Kannada: ಕಡುಹಗೆತನ (kn) (kaḍuhagetana), ಮನೆತನದ ಹಗೆತನ (kn) (manetanada hagetana)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xwîndarî (ku) f, xîndarî (ku) f, xûndarî (ku) f, xwêndarî (ku) f, vendeta (ku) f

• Malay: balas (ms)
• Malayalam: ബന്ധുഹത്യാപ്രതികാരം (bandhuhatyāpratikāraṁ)
• Nogai: карым (karım)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blodhevn m

• Ossetian: тугфидынад (tugfidynad)
• Persian: دشمنی خونی (došmani-e xuni), کین‌خواهی (kin-xâhi)
• Polish: wendeta (pl) f, wróżda (pl) f, zemsta (pl) f
• Portuguese: rivalidade (pt) f
• Romanian: vendetă (ro) f
• Russian: кро́вная месть (ru) f (króvnaja mestʹ), венде́тта (ru) f (vendétta), вражда́ (ru) f (vraždá) (feud)
• Scottish Gaelic: falachd f
• Serbo-Croatian: vendeta (sh) f
• Slovak: vendeta f
• Spanish: vendetta (es) f, venganza de sangre f, venganza (es) f
• Swedish: vendetta (sv) c, blodshämnd (sv) c
• Tagalog: higanti
• Tamil: பரம்பரைப்பகை (paramparaippakai)
• Turkish: kan davası (tr)
• Ukrainian: кро́вна по́мста f (króvna pómsta), венде́та f (vendéta)
• Venetian: vendéta f
• Vietnamese: thù máu

personal grudge

• Japanese: 私怨 (ja) (しえん, shien), 私恨 (ja) (しこん, shikon), 私憤 (ja) (しふん, shifun)

Corsican

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vẽnˈdɛtta/
• Hyphenation: ven‧det‧ta

Noun

vendetta f (plural vendetti or vendette)

1. Alternative form of vindetta

References

• “vindetta, vendetta” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

French

Alternative forms

• vendette (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian vendetta, from Latin vindicta. Doublet of vindicte, borrowed from Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃.dɛ.ta/, /vɑ̃.de.ta/

Noun

vendetta f (plural vendettas)

1. blood feud, vendetta
   • 1976, François de Roubaix (lyrics and music), “'Vendetta'”:

     Vendetta est une belle tradition. Un art fin comme un lien entre les générations.

     Vendetta is a beautiful tradition. A fine art like a link between generations.

Further reading

• “vendetta”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vindicta (“vengeance”), from vindico (“to claim, to vindicate”), from vindex (“defender”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /venˈdet.ta/
• Rhymes: -etta
• Hyphenation: ven‧dét‧ta

• Audio

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Noun

vendetta f (plural vendette)

1. revenge, vengeance

Derived terms

• la vendetta è un piatto che va servito freddo

Related terms

• vendicarsi
• vendicatore
• vendicativo

See also

• faida
• ripicca

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian vendetta (“revenge”), from Latin vindicta. Doublet of vindicta, borrowed from Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /benˈdeta/ [bẽn̪ˈd̪e.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: ven‧det‧ta

Noun

vendetta f (plural vendettas)

1. revenge, vengeance

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “vendetta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014