ignominia

Borrowed from Latin ignominia.

• IPA^(key): /iɲ.ɲoˈmi.nja/
• Rhymes: -inja
• Hyphenation: i‧gno‧mì‧nia

ignominia f (plural ignominie)

1. ignominy

• ignominioso

• ignominia in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• ignominia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From in- +‎ nōmen +‎ -ia.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪŋ.noːˈmɪ.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iɲ.ɲoˈmiː.ni.a]

ignōminia f (genitive ignōminiae); first declension

1. dishonour, disgrace, degradation, ignominy, shame

   Synonym: indignitās

   Antonym: dignitās

   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.14:

     […] ad illā veniō, quae nōn ad prīvātam ignōminiam vitiōrum tuōrum, nōn ad domesticam tuam difficultātem ac turpitūdinem, sed ad summam rem pūblicam atque ad omnium nostrum vītam salūtemque pertinent.

     I come now to those things which pertain not to the private disgrace of your vices, not to your domestic hardship and shame, but to the highest welfare of the state, and to the life and safety of us all.

First-declension noun.

• ignōminiōsus

• “ignominia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ignominia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ignominia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to inflict an indignity upon, insult a person: aliquem ignominia afficere, notare
    
  • to inflict an indignity upon, insult a person: alicui ignominiam inurere
    
  • to chafe under an indignity, repudiate it: ignominiam non ferre
    
  • to brand a person with infamy: notare aliquem ignominia (Cluent. 43. 119)
    
• “ignominia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ignominia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Latin ignominia.

• IPA^(key): /iɡnoˈminja/ [iɣ̞.noˈmi.nja]
• Rhymes: -inja
• Syllabification: ig‧no‧mi‧nia

ignominia f (plural ignominias)

1. ignominy

• “ignominia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025