vendetta

See also: Vendetta

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛnˈdɛtə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• vendettist

Translations

bitter, destructive feud in which each injury is revenged

Albanian: gjakmarrje (sq) f Armenian: արյան վրիժառություն (aryan vrižaṙutʻyun), վենդետա (hy) (vendeta) Catalan: please add this translation if you can Chechen: чӏир (čʼir) Chinese: Mandarin: 仇殺 / 仇杀 (zh) (chóushā), 互相傷害 / 互相伤害, 以怨報怨 / 以怨报怨 Corsican: vindetta f, vendetta f Czech: vendeta (cs) f, krevní msta m Danish: blodhævn c Dutch: vete (nl) f or m, vendetta (nl) f or m, bloedwraak (nl) f or m Esperanto: venĝiro Estonian: vendeta, veritasu Finnish: verikosto (fi) French: vendetta (fr) f Georgian: სისხლის აღება (sisxlis aɣeba), ვენდეტა (vendeṭa) German: Blutfehde f, Vendetta (de) f Greek: βεντέτα (el) f (ventéta) Hungarian: vérbosszú (hu) Icelandic: blóðhefnd f Ido: vendetta (io) Italian: faida (it) f Japanese: 確執 (ja) (かくしつ, kakushitsu), フェーデ (fēde) Kannada: ಕಡುಹಗೆತನ (kn) (kaḍuhagetana), ಮನೆತನದ ಹಗೆತನ (kn) (manetanada hagetana) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: xwîndarî (ku) f, xîndarî (ku) f, xûndarî (ku) f, xwêndarî (ku) f, vendeta (ku) f Malayalam: ബന്ധുഹത്യാപ്രതികാരം (bandhuhatyāpratikāraṁ) Nogai: карым (karım) Norwegian: Bokmål: blodhevn m Ossetian: тугфидынад (tugfidynad) Persian: دشمنی خونی (došmani-e xuni), کین‌خواهی (kin-xâhi) Polish: wendeta (pl) f, wróżda (pl) f, zemsta (pl) f Portuguese: rivalidade (pt) f Romanian: vendetă (ro) f Russian: кро́вная месть (ru) f (króvnaja mestʹ), венде́тта (ru) f (vendétta), вражда́ (ru) f (vraždá) (feud) Scottish Gaelic: falachd f Serbo-Croatian: vendeta (sh) f Slovak: vendeta f Spanish: vendetta (es) f, venganza de sangre f, venganza (es) f Swedish: vendetta (sv) c, blodshämnd (sv) c Tagalog: rido Tamil: பரம்பரைப்பகை (paramparaippakai) Turkish: kan davası (tr) Ukrainian: кро́вна по́мста f (króvna pómsta), венде́та f (vendéta) Venetan: vendéta f Vietnamese: thù máu

personal grudge

Japanese: 私怨 (ja) (しえん, shien), 私恨 (ja) (しこん, shikon), 私憤 (ja) (しふん, shifun)

Corsican

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vendetta f (plural vendetti or vendette)

1. alternative form of vindetta

References

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

French

Alternative forms

• vendette (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

vendetta f (plural vendette)

1. revenge, vengeance

Derived terms

• la vendetta è un piatto che va servito freddo

Related terms

• vendicarsi
• vendicatore
• vendicativo

See also

• faida
• ripicca

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vendetta f (plural vendettas)

1. revenge, vengeance

   Synonym: venganza

Usage notes

• 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.

Further reading

• “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