One of the most interesting areas of linguisticsis the etymology - the science of the origin of lexical units. The stories of their birth and introduction into the vocabulary are sometimes similar to detectives, sometimes - to anecdotes ...
The meaning of the word "lampoon"
An interesting explanation is given to this lexeme VI.Dal in his famous work on the interpretation of units of the Russian language. According to the scientist, libel is "nameless" (that is, in fact anonymous), "an abusive letter, a diarrheal writing."
It is interesting that in the XIX century in the countries of the West and in Russia the word "lampoon" had the legal meaning of a false denunciation.
The etymology of the word "lampoon"
It often happens that the origin of somethere are no unanimous opinions. The same thing happened with the word "lampoon". This is a whole story. It is believed that it occurred on behalf of Pasquin. The researchers, however, disagree on the point of view relative to its carrier. Some believe that the shoemaker with this name lived in Rome in the XV century and allegedly mercilessly branded superiors for their various sins. According to others, Pasquin was either an innkeeper or a barber. But the third ones are sure that in ancient times on one of the streets of Rome was placed the armless remnant of the sculpture, originally depicting some famous person. Opposite lived an inconspicuous teacher - Maestro Pasquino, whose students saw the external resemblance of a bust with their mentor and called him the same way.
There was a sculpture on a wide pedestal and invery crowded place. This contributed to the fact that soon it began to stick to all sorts of sharp epigrams, caricatures, often frank gossip or slander, sometimes anecdotes, where the representatives of the Catholic Church or the government were criticized. So everything, pasted on Paskvino, can be considered libel. This is the story.
Pronunciation of the word "lampoon"
In Russian, this token has gotindirectly - from Italian through Polish. Naturally, therefore, the word retained the accent inherent in this language, always on the penultimate syllable, whereas in German the emphasis is on the latter: pasquíll is libel. The stress is sometimes deliberately transferred to the end of the word. This happens when the intention is intentionally intended to give an ironic meaning: "He again issued another lampoon."
Our language abounds with words, in which the emphasis is mobile, which often leads to confusion for foreigners studying Russian.
There is another feature of the pronunciation of thiswords - an obsolete form of pashkvil. By the way, in Polish it sounds so. And in the Russian classical literature of the XVIII – XIX centuries in this form is often found.
Synonyms for the word "lampoon"
This essay is often written in the style of journalism or even fiction and in form close to the pamphlet. However, if the latter is a literary genre, then libel is still slanderous fabrications, and, let's say, a legitimate form of artistic prose, he can not be.
In some positive sense, the word "pamphlet" withstretch can be considered synonymous with "lampoon". But more closely the meaning of the Russian word "slander", as well as several borrowed. Thus, the meaning of slanderous fabrication has a lexeme "insinuation". Defamation will be called publicity in the press of some information, disgracing someone. There is also the rarely used word "liberla". Its meaning is the same - the little book for the most part of the libelous content.
To this, you can add an entire synonymousa number of colloquial synonyms with different emotional and stylistic coloring: bullshit, lies, fiction, fiction, cursing, lies, fabrications, deceptions, lies, slander, slander, deplorable, vain, headphones, falsehood, accusation, obgovanie, vilification, slander, whistling, gossip.
