diffamation
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French diffamacion, borrowed from Latin diffāmātiōnem, from diffāmō (“to spread an unfavorable report; to defame, malign, decry”), from dis- + fāma (“report, opinion, reputation”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.fa.ma.sjɔ̃/
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Noun
diffamation f (plural diffamations)
- defamation
- 2020 June 19, “Stopper la haine sur Internet”, in Le Monde[1]:
- C’est le propre de la législation sur la presse de mettre en balance liberté d’expression et protection contre la diffamation, l’injure ou l’incitation à la haine.
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Related terms
Further reading
- “diffamation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.