vandalisme

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French vandalisme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bən.dəˈliz.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vən.dəˈliz.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [van.daˈliz.me]

Noun

vandalisme m (uncountable)

1. vandalism

Further reading

• “vandalisme” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “vandalisme”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “vandalisme” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Danish

Etymology

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Noun

vandalisme c (singular definite vandalismen, not used in plural form)

1. Vandalism.

Inflection

Declension of vandalisme

common gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	vandalisme	vandalismen
genitive	vandalismes	vandalismens

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French vandalisme. Equivalent to vandaal +‎ -isme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌvɑn.daːˈlɪs.mə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: van‧da‧lis‧me
• Rhymes: -ɪsmə

Noun

vandalisme n (uncountable)

1. vandalism (needless damage or destruction of property)

French

Etymology

From vandale +‎ -isme, coined by Henri Grégoire in 1794.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃.da.lism/ ~ /vɑ̃.da.lizm/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

vandalisme m (plural vandalismes)

1. vandalism
   • 1794, Henri Grégoire, Rapport sur les destructions opérées par le vandalisme, et sur les moyens de le réprimer, Paris, page 2:

     Tandis que la flamme dévore une de les plus belles bibliothèques de la République, tandis que des dépôts de matières combuſtibles semblent menacer encore d’autres bibliothèques, le vandalisme redouble ses efforts.

     While flame devours one of the most beautiful libraries of the Republic, while stores of combustible material seem to menace yet other libraries, vandalism redoubles its efforts.

Related terms

• vandale
• vandaliser

Descendants

• → Catalan: vandalisme
• → Dutch: vandalisme
• → English: vandalism
• → Polish: wandalizm
• → Romanian: vandalism
• → Turkish: vandalizm

Further reading

• “vandalisme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• vandalisme on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr