desmesura
See also: desmesurá
Catalan
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editdesmesura f (plural desmesures)
- (uncountable) excess (lack of moderation)
- (countable) excess (disproportionate action)
- 1969, Octavi Fullat, El crac universitari:
- Quan el maig del mil noucents seixanta vuit, els estudiants de Paris cometeren desmesures —convé precisar, per contrast, que no hi ha costum enlloc de qualificar de desmesura les desmesures legalitzades, i consti que n'hi ha— vaig sentir com un bon home s'exclamava: "Potser tindran raó en el que demanen, però la forma de fer-ho és totalment incorrecta".
- When, in May of nineteen sixty-eight, the students of Paris committed excesses--it should be noted, by contrast, that there is no custom of describing legalised excesses as excesses, and it's obvious these exist--I felt that simple souls exclaimed, "Maybe they are right in what they are asking but their way of going about it is all wrong."
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “desmesura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “desmesura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “desmesura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “desmesura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editdesmesura f (plural desmesuras)
- excess
- lack of measuring or control
Etymology 2
editVerb
editdesmesura
- inflection of desmesurar:
Further reading
edit- “desmesura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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