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Ghibelline en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡɪbəlaɪn/ (General-American)
• /ˈɡɪbəlin/ (General-American)
• /ˈɡɪbɪlaɪn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɡɪbələn/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Italian ghibellino, from German Waiblingen, from Middle High German Wibellingen, the name of a castle in Swabia held by the Hohenstaufen dynasty (nowadays in the township of Waiblingen), from Old High German Weibilinga, Weibelingen, possibly a suffixed form of the personal name Wabilo, Wahilo. The emperor's supporters used the name as a rallying cry, which was probably introduced to Italy during the reign of Frederick Barbarossa, 1155—1190.

Meanings

1. (historical) In the politics of medieval Italian city states, any member of a faction that supported the Holy Roman Emperor in a long struggle against the Guelphs and the Pope.
   • 2012, Elizabeth K. Haller, Dante Aleghieri (1265—1321), Lister M. Matheson (editor), Icons of the Middle Ages, Volume 1, ABC-Clio (Greenwood) page 246, The Ghibellines gained power in Florence in 1249 and immediately banished the Guelphs. Ezzelino da Romano was one of the leaders of the Ghibelline movement and had a reputation for cruelty. He is depicted by Dante as a tyrant in The Divine Comedy.
   • More specifically, Fastello is said to address those Ghibellines who resided in the Valdarno area. 2019, Nicolino Applauso, Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), page 117:
   • These two factions came to be called Guelphs and Ghibellines respectively. The Guelphs were the supporters of the Popes, the Ghibellines of the Emperors. The Guelphs upheld the temporal supremacy of the Pope: the Ghibellines would separate temporal from spiritual authority. The Guelphs resisted the establishment of complete imperial government in the cities of northern Italy: the Ghibellines, with the glories of the old Roman Empire before their eyes, longed to see Italy welded together into a single nation, and governed and controlled by the strong hands of the emperor. 1878, Arthur Elam Haigh, The Political Theories of Dante: The Stanhope Prize Essay, 1878, Thos. Shrimpton & Co., page 6:

Forms

Deriveds

Ghibellinism

Translations (47)

ca gibel·lí (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · fr Gibeline (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · io gibelino (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · es gibelina (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · eu Gibelino (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · pt gibelina (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · sl gibelin (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · ja 皇帝派 (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · ko 기벨린 (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · et gibelliin (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · br Gibelin (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · th กิเบลลิโน (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · pl gibelin (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · uk ґібелі́н (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · ka გიბელინ (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · sh гибели́ни (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · ru гибелли́н (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · da ghibellin (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · fr gibeline (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · de Ghibelline (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · fr gibelin (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · ja ギベリン (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · el Γιβελλίνος (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · br Gibellin (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · fi ghibelliini (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · be гібелі́н (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · no ghibellin (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · pt gibelino (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · eo Gibelino (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · fr Gibelin (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · az gibellin (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · it ghibellino (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · ar غيبلين (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · cs ghibellin (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · hu ghibellin (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · de Gibelline (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · it ghibellina (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · sh gibelíni (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · de Waiblinger (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · is gíbellín (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · he גיבלינ (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · sv ghibellin (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · es gibelino (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · bg гибелин (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · id Ghibellin (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · cmn 吉伯林 (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors) · ca gibel·lina (member of a medieval Italian faction that supported the German emperors)

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