vendetta

Borrowed from Italian vendetta (“revenge”), from Latin vindicta. See vindicate, avenge.

• IPA^(key): /vɛnˈdɛtə/

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  • (US) IPA^(key): [vɛnˈdɛɾə]
• Rhymes: -ɛtə
• Hyphenation: ven‧det‧ta

vendetta (plural vendettas or vendette)

1. Revenge.
2. A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans, or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged: a blood feud.

   The families had been locked in a bitter vendetta for generations.

3. (often preceded by personal) A motivational grudge against a person or faction, which may or may not be reciprocated; the state of having it in for someone.

   personal vendetta

   blood vendetta

• vendettist

• IPA^(key): /vẽnˈdɛtta/
• Hyphenation: ven‧det‧ta

vendetta f (plural vendetti or vendette)

1. alternative form of vindetta

• “vindetta, vendetta” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

• vendette (archaic)

Borrowed from Italian vendetta, from Latin vindicta. Doublet of vindicte, borrowed from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃.dɛ.ta/ ~ /vɑ̃.de.ta/

vendetta f (plural vendettas)

1. blood feud, vendetta
   • 1976, François de Roubaix, “'Vendetta'”:

     Vendetta est une belle tradition. Un art fin comme un lien entre les générations.

     Vendetta is a beautiful tradition. A fine art like a link between generations.

• “vendetta”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Inherited from Latin vindicta (“vengeance”), from vindico (“to claim, to vindicate”), from vindex (“defender”).

• IPA^(key): /venˈdet.ta/
• Rhymes: -etta
• Hyphenation: ven‧dét‧ta

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vendetta f (plural vendette)

1. revenge, vengeance

• la vendetta è un piatto che va servito freddo

• vendicarsi
• vendicatore
• vendicativo

• faida
• ripicca

Unadapted borrowing from Italian vendetta (“revenge”), from Latin vindicta. Doublet of vindicta, borrowed from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /benˈdedta/ [bẽn̪ˈd̪eð̞.t̪a], /benˈdeta/ [bẽn̪ˈd̪e.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -edta, -eta
• Syllabification: ven‧det‧ta

vendetta f (plural vendettas)

1. revenge, vengeance

   Synonym: venganza

• According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “vendetta”, 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