Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

infamita

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-fami-ta
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A most heinous act against one's own family, or against family life in general.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"I don’t want any [drugs] near schools, I don’t want any of it sold to children. That is an infamita."
"And why, if he had betrayed his own, did he not turn to his enemies for protection, as all traitors do? I imagined he must have committed one of those unforgivable Sicilian crimes, an infamità so serious that everybody must condemn him, his family, his allies as well as his enemies; one of those mysterious violations of the unwritten code to punish which rivalries, feuds, and gang wars were temporarily suspended; […]"
"Don Croce sells information to the government and to me that is an infamita."
"Philip teaches the children the Sicilian concept of omerta or silence and warns them not to commit infamita, or the telling of family secrets."

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian infamità.

Usage

Inflected Forms

infamitas (plural)

Questions

What does infamita mean?: A most heinous act against one's own family, or against family life in general.
Where does infamita come from?: Borrowed from Italian infamità.

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