One of the most interesting areas of linguistics is the etymology - the science of the origin of the lexical units.Stories of their birth and the introduction of vocabulary is sometimes like a detective, sometimes - on anecdotes ...
meaning of the word "libel»
interesting explanation gives this token VIDahl in his famous work on the interpretation of units of the Russian language.According to the scientist, libel - a "nameless" (ie essentially anonymous), "abusive letter, an essay of diarrhea."In more modern dictionaries already disappearing character of anonymity, but the meaning is defamatory writings, and with attacks, insults, always remains.However, it can be not only a message in writing, and caricature with the same false and insulting information about a person or group of persons, as well as the political party or social movement.
Interestingly, in the XIX century in the West and in Russia the word "libel" had the legal meaning of false denunciation.
etymology of the word "libel»
Often there is the origin of some token there is no unanimous opinion.The same thing happened with the word "libel".That's the whole story.It is believed that it comes from the name of Pasquino.Researchers, however, differ in their point of view on its carrier.Some believe that the shoemaker with that name lived in Rome in the XV century, and though mercilessly branded superior persons for their various transgressions.For others, Pasquino was whether the landlord, or the barber.But others believe that in ancient times on the streets of Rome placed the rest of armless sculpture, originally depicting some well-known personality.Instead lived inconspicuous teacher - Maestro Pasquino, whose disciples saw resemblance bust with his mentor and named it the same way.
standing sculpture on a pedestal and wide in a very public place.This contributed to the fact that soon it began to stick all kinds of sharp epigrams, caricatures, often candid gossip or slander, sometimes jokes, which have been criticized by representatives of the Catholic Church or the government.So all glued to Pasquino, can be considered libel.That's the story.
pronunciation of the word "libel»
The Russian language has got this token indirectly - from the Italian by Poland.Naturally therefore, the word retains the accent peculiar to this language - always on the penultimate syllable, whereas in Germany the emphasis is on the latter: pasquíll - libel.Emphasis sometimes deliberately transferred to the end of the word.This happens in the case where the statement intentionally want to give an ironic sense: "He again gave another libel."
Our language is replete with words, which emphasize mobility, which often confuses foreigners studying Russian.As for the word "libel", it was not affected.With the decline in the singular and the plural the accent is always on the first syllable.
There is another feature of the pronunciation of the word - an old form pashkvil.Incidentally, in the Polish language and it sounds.And in the Russian classical literature XVIII-XIX centuries in this form uncommon.
Synonyms of the word "libel»
Written like that often work in the style of journalism or fiction, and the form is close to the pamphlet.However, if the latter is a literary genre, the libel - is still calumnies, and, so to say, legalized view of fiction, he can not be.
In a positive sense of the word "pamphlet" can hardly be considered a synonym of "libel".But the more closely within the meaning of the Russian word "libel", and several borrowed.Thus, the value of the token is libelous fabrications "insinuation."Called defamation of publicity in the press any information that defames anyone.There is rarely used word "libella."Meaning it is similar - for the most part little book libelous content.
By this you can still add a synonymous number of colloquial synonyms with different emotional and stylistic coloring: nonsense, lies, fiction, fiction, evil, izvet, fabrications, intrigues, lie, libel, slander, hardening, slander, peaching, untrue charges, negotiable, oblyg, run-out, slander, denigration, slander, whistling, gossip.
