Meanings
plural aggiornamentos · plural aggiornamenti
- Synonym of update, especially in reference to Italian scholarship or (Roman Catholicism) the updating of doctrine and practices by the Roman Catholic Church as part of the 1962–1965 Second Vatican Council.
Buonocore's comments and bibliographical aggiornamenti are again exemplary.
1998, Jerzy Linderski, "Updating the CIL for Italy, Part 2", Journal of Roman Archaeology, No. 11, p. 4711 more example
Aggiornamento with the increasingly truculent magistrates was a major plank of Choiseul's recovery strategy for the state.
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 249Synonyms: update
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of update, especially in reference to Italian scholarship or (Roman Catholicism) the updating of doctrine and practices by the Roman Catholic Church as part of the 1962–1965 Second Vatican Council.
Origin
- Frenchajourner“to postpone”
- Italianaggiornamento“updating; adjournment”
- Englishaggiornamento
From Italian aggiornamento (“updating; adjournment”), from aggiornare (“update; postpone”) + -mento (“-ment”), from French ajourner (“to postpone”), q.v. Doublet of adjournment.
More words from Italian, French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish uudistus, reformi
- uudistusupdating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s
- reformiupdating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s
French aggiornamento
- aggiornamentoupdating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s
Indonesian aggiornamento
- aggiornamentoupdating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s
Italian aggiornamento
- aggiornamentoupdating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s
Portuguese aggiornamento, agiornamento
- aggiornamentoupdating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s
- agiornamentoupdating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s
Russian обновле́ние, осовреме́нивание
- обновле́ние (obnovlénije)updating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s
- осовреме́нивание (osovreménivanije)updating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s
Vietnamese (sự) canh tân
- (sự) canh tânupdating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s
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