Etymograph

English

sdeign

Sdeign comes from Italian sdegnare ‘to scorn’.

  1. Italianc. 1300–presentsdegnare1‘to scorn’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1590sdeign1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English sdeign
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book III, Canto I: “Which when those knights beheld, with scornefull eye They…”.

Lineage

  1. Italianc. 1300–presentsdegnareWiktionary, English sdeign‘to scorn’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1590sdeignWiktionary, English sdeign. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book III, Canto I: “Which when those knights beheld, with scornefull eye They…”

Every English word from Italian sdegnare

Today it means

verb To disdain.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sdeign”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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