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Italian profanity

Index Italian profanity

Italian profanity (bestemmia, pl. bestemmie, when referred to religious topics; parolaccia, pl. parolacce, when not) refers to a set of words considered blasphemous or inflammatory in the Italian language. [1]

84 relations: Abruzzo, Antonin Scalia, Asshole, BBC, Bergamo, Blasphemy, Brignano Gera d'Adda, Brothel, Catholic Church, Civic center, Cognate, Corriere della Sera, Cuckold, Curate, Deer, Domestic pig, Emilia-Romagna, Emilio Barzini, Executioner, Faggot (slang), Feces, Feltrinelli (publisher), Fig sign, Florentine dialect, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Zappa, French language, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Giambattista Basile, God, Grease (film), Idiot, Il Giorno (newspaper), Insult, Invective, Italian general election, 2006, Italian language, Jesus, La Repubblica, Latin profanity, Lazio, Luck, Macaronic language, Malaria, Marche, Maremma, Mario Puzo, Mary, mother of Jesus, Middle Ages, Mikhail Bakhtin, ..., Minced oath, Misdemeanor, Neapolitan language, Northern Italy, Ogre, Pentamerone, Portuguese language, Procuring (prostitution), Profanity, Romance languages, Romanesco dialect, Romanian language, Saint, Shit, Sicilian language, Sign of the horns, Silvio Berlusconi, Sonny Corleone, Spanish language, Stockard Channing, Stupidity, Ten Commandments, Testicle, The Fortunate Pilgrim, The Godfather, Thimble, Tuscan dialect, Tuscany, Umbria, Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics, University of Pennsylvania, University of Vermont, Veneto, Vito Corleone. Expand index (34 more) »

Abruzzo

Abruzzo (Aquiliano: Abbrùzzu) is a region of Southern Italy, with an area of 10,763 square km (4,156 sq mi) and a population of 1.2 million.

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Antonin Scalia

Antonin Gregory Scalia (March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016.

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Asshole

The word asshole (in North American English) or arsehole (in all other major varieties of the English language), is a vulgarism to describe the anus, and often used pejoratively (as a type of synecdoche) to refer to people.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bergamo

Bergamo (Italian:; Bèrghem; from Latin Bergomum) is a city in Lombardy, northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from the Alpine lakes Como and Iseo.

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Blasphemy

Blasphemy is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred things, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable.

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Brignano Gera d'Adda

Brignano Gera d'Adda is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about east of Milan and about south of Bergamo.

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Brothel

A brothel or bordello is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes, who are sometimes referred to as sex workers.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Civic center

A civic center or civic centre is a prominent land area within a community that is constructed to be its focal point or center.

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Cognate

In linguistics, cognates are words that have a common etymological origin.

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Corriere della Sera

The Corriere della Sera (English: Evening Courier) is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average daily circulation of 410,242 copies in December 2015.

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Cuckold

A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife.

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Curate

A curate is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish.

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Deer

Deer (singular and plural) are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae.

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Domestic pig

The domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus or only Sus domesticus), often called swine, hog, or simply pig when there is no need to distinguish it from other pigs, is a large, even-toed ungulate.

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Emilia-Romagna

Emilia-Romagna (Emilian and Emélia-Rumâgna) is an administrative Region of Northeast Italy comprising the historical regions of Emilia and Romagna.

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Emilio Barzini

Emilio "The Wolf" Barzini is a fictional character and one of the primary antagonists, alongside with Virgil Sollozzo, in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and in its film adaptation, in which he is portrayed by Richard Conte.

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Executioner

A judicial executioner is a person who carries out a death sentence ordered by the state or other legal authority, which was known in feudal terminology as high justice.

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Faggot (slang)

Faggot, often shortened to fag, is a pejorative term used chiefly in North America primarily to refer to a gay male.

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Feces

Feces (or faeces) are the solid or semisolid remains of the food that could not be digested in the small intestine.

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Feltrinelli (publisher)

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore is an Italian publishing company founded in 1954 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli.

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Fig sign

The fig sign is a mildly obscene gesture used in Turkish and Slavic cultures and some other cultures that uses two fingers and a thumb.

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Florentine dialect

The Florentine dialect or vernacular (Dialetto fiorentino or vernacolo) is a Tuscan variety of Romance spoken in the Italian city of Florence.

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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Friûl-Vignesie Julie; Furlanija-Julijska krajina, Friaul-Julisch Venetien; Friul-Venesia Julia; Friul-Unieja Julia) is one of the 20 regions of Italy, and one of five autonomous regions with special statute.

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Giambattista Basile

Giambattista Basile (February 1566 – February 1632) was a Neapolitan poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector.

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God

In monotheistic thought, God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and the principal object of faith.

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Grease (film)

Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film based on the musical of the same name.

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Idiot

Idiot was formerly a legal and psychiatric category of profound intellectual disability, where a person's mental age is two years or less, and he or she cannot guard himself or herself against common physical dangers.

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Il Giorno (newspaper)

Il Giorno is an Italian-language national daily newspaper, based in Milan, Italy; it has numerous local editions in Lombardy.

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Insult

An insult is an expression or statement (or sometimes behavior) which is disrespectful or scornful.

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Invective

Invective (from Middle English invectif, or Old French and Late Latin invectus) is abusive, reproachful, or venomous language used to express blame or censure; or, a form of rude expression or discourse intended to offend or hurt; vituperation, or deeply seated ill will, vitriol.

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Italian general election, 2006

The 2006 Italian general election for the two Chambers of the Italian Parliament was held on 9 and 10 April 2006.

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Italian language

Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.

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Jesus

Jesus, also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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La Repubblica

la Repubblica (the Republic) is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper.

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Latin profanity

Latin profanity is the profane, indecent, or impolite vocabulary of Latin, and its uses.

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Lazio

Lazio (Latium) is one of the 20 administrative regions of Italy.

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Luck

Luck is the experience of notably positive, negative, or improbable events.

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Macaronic language

Macaronic refers to text using a mixture of languages, particularly bilingual puns or situations in which the languages are otherwise used in the same context (rather than simply discrete segments of a text being in different languages).

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganisms) belonging to the Plasmodium type.

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Marche

Marche, or the Marches, is one of the twenty regions of Italy.

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Maremma

The Maremma is a coastal area of western central Italy, bordering the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Mario Puzo

Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author, screenwriter and journalist.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н,; – 7 March 1975) was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language.

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Minced oath

A minced oath is a euphemistic expression formed by misspelling, mispronouncing, or replacing a part of a profane, blasphemous, or taboo term to reduce the original term's objectionable characteristics.

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Misdemeanor

A misdemeanor (American English, spelled misdemeanour in British English) is any "lesser" criminal act in some common law legal systems.

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Neapolitan language

Neapolitan (autonym: (’o n)napulitano; napoletano) is a Romance language of the Italo-Dalmatian group spoken across much of southern Italy, except for southern Calabria and Sicily.

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Northern Italy

Northern Italy (Italia settentrionale or just Nord) is a geographical region in the northern part of Italy.

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Ogre

An ogre (feminine: "ogress") is a legendary monster usually depicted as a large, hideous, man-like being that eats ordinary human beings, especially infants and children.

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Pentamerone

The Pentamerone (Neapolitan subtitle: Lo cunto de li cunti, "The Tale of Tales") is a seventeenth-century fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

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Procuring (prostitution)

Procuring or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer.

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Profanity

Profanity is socially offensive language, which may also be called swear words, curse words, cuss words, bad language, strong language, offensive language, crude language, coarse language, foul language, bad words, oaths, blasphemous language, vulgar language, lewd language, choice words, or expletives.

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Romance languages

The Romance languages (also called Romanic languages or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that began evolving from Vulgar Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries and that form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family.

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Romanesco dialect

Romanesco is a variety of regional Italian spoken in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, especially in the core city.

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Romanian language

Romanian (obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; autonym: limba română, "the Romanian language", or românește, lit. "in Romanian") is an East Romance language spoken by approximately 24–26 million people as a native language, primarily in Romania and Moldova, and by another 4 million people as a second language.

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Saint

A saint (also historically known as a hallow) is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness or closeness to God.

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Shit

Shit is a word considered vulgar and profane in Modern English.

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Sicilian language

Sicilian (sicilianu; in Italian: Siciliano; also known as Siculo (siculu) or Calabro-Sicilian) is a Romance language spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands.

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Sign of the horns

The sign of the horns is a hand gesture with a variety of meanings and uses in various cultures.

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Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments.

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Sonny Corleone

Santino "Sonny" Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather and its 1972 film adaptation.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Stockard Channing

Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard; February 13, 1944) is an American stage, film and television actress.

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Stupidity

Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit, or common sense.

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Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments (עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדִּבְּרוֹת, Aseret ha'Dibrot), also known as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity.

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Testicle

The testicle or testis is the male reproductive gland in all animals, including humans.

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The Fortunate Pilgrim

The Fortunate Pilgrim is a 1965 novel by Mario Puzo.

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The Godfather

The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy, based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel of the same name.

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Thimble

A thimble is a small hard pitted cup worn for protection on the finger that pushes the needle in sewing.

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Tuscan dialect

Tuscan (dialetto toscano) is a set of Italo-Dalmatian varieties mainly spoken in Tuscany, Italy.

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Tuscany

Tuscany (Toscana) is a region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants (2013).

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Umbria

Umbria is a region of central Italy.

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Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics

The Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics (Unione degli Atei e degli Agnostici Razionalisti, UAAR) is the only nationwide association of atheists and agnostics in Italy.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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University of Vermont

The University of Vermont (UVM), officially The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public research university and, since 1862, the sole land-grant university in the U.S. state of Vermont.

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Veneto

Veneto (or,; Vèneto) is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Vito Corleone

Vito Andolini Corleone (April 27, 1891 – July 29, 1955) is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and in the first two of Francis Ford Coppola's three Godfather films, in which, in later life, he is portrayed by Marlon Brando in The Godfather and then, as a young man, by Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_profanity

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