Dictionary

aggiornamento en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /əˌdʒɔːnəˈmɛntəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /əˌd͡ʒɔɹnəˈmɛntoʊ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Italian aggiornamento (“updating; adjournment”), from aggiornare (“update; postpone”) + -mento (“-ment”), from French ajourner (“to postpone”), q.v. Doublet of adjournment.

Meanings

1. 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.
   • 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 249:
   • 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. 471

Forms

Synonyms

update

Translations (10)

fi reformi (updating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s) · id aggiornamento (updating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s) · it aggiornamento (updating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s) · pt agiornamento (updating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s) · vi (sự) canh tân (updating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s) · pt aggiornamento (updating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s) · ru обновле́ние (updating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s) · fr aggiornamento (updating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s) · ru осовреме́нивание (updating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s) · fi uudistus (updating of Roman Catholic doctrine and practices in the 1960s)