minacia

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /miˈnaː.ki.a/, [mɪˈnäːkiä]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /miˈna.t͡ʃi.a/, [miˈnäːt͡ʃiä]

Etymology 1

From mināx +‎ -ia. Attested in Plautus and Arnobius the Younger.[1]

Noun

minācia f (genitive mināciae); first declension (Old Latin, Late Latin)

threat

Usage notes

Usually found in the plural mināciae.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	minācia	mināciae
Genitive	mināciae	mināciārum
Dative	mināciae	mināciīs
Accusative	mināciam	mināciās
Ablative	mināciā	mināciīs
Vocative	minācia	mināciae

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: minaccia
  - →? Friulian: menace
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: minatta (Logudorese)
North Italian:
- Friulian: manase
- Romansch: imnatscha
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: menaça
  - Catalan: amenaça
- Old French: manace, menace, menache, menaiche
  - French: menace
  - Norman: m'niche, méniche
  - → Middle English: manace
    - English: menace
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: mẽaça, amẽaça; meaça, ameaça
  - Galician: ameaza
  - Portuguese: ameaça
- Old Spanish: menaça
  - Ladin: amenasa
  - Spanish: menaza, amenaza
    - Papiamentu: amenasa
Vulgar Latin:
- *mināciāre (see there for further descendants)

References

minaciae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
minaciae in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
“minaciae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mĭnācia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/2: Mercatio–Mneme, page 99

Adjective

minācia

nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of mināx

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