challenge
French
noun
Definitions
- challenge
Etymology
Derived from Old French chalonge derived from Latin calumnia (a false accusation, calumny, trickery, false statement, malicious charge, fallacy, artifice, misrepresentation, slander, false accusation).
Origin
Latin
calumnia
Gloss
a false accusation, calumny, trickery, false statement, malicious charge, fallacy, artifice, misrepresentation, slander, false accusation
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- calumnia Latin
- calumnior Latin
- calunnia Italian
- calomnie French
- *kēl- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱelh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- calúnia Portuguese
- kalumnia Polish
- chalange Middle English
- kalange Middle English
- calomnie Old French
- chalenge Old French
- chalonge Old French
- cooyma Old Portuguese
- *kalwomniā Proto-Italic