disconfitta

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.skonˈfit.ta/
• Rhymes: -itta
• Hyphenation: di‧scon‧fìt‧ta

Etymology 1

Nominalization of the feminine singular form of disconfitto (“defeated”), past participle of disconfiggere (“to defeat”).

Noun

disconfitta f (plural disconfitte)

1. (obsolete) defeat

   Synonyms: disfatta, sconfitta

   • 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[1] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

     granne vattaglia overo vettoria tristezze, disconfitte inscolpivano e aitri animali in sassi overo iente armata, in segno de tale memoria.

     They inscribed a great battle or victory, sorrows, defeats and other beings, or armed people, in sign of such a remembrance.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

disconfitta f sg

1. past participle feminine singular of disconfitto

References

• Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “disconfitta”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 4, page 615