blasphemia

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /blasˈpʰeː.mi.a/, [bɫ̪äs̠ˈpʰeːmiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /blasˈfe.mi.a/, [bläsˈfɛːmiä]

Noun

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

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin) blasphemy
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin) slander, reviling

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.