Other forms: vendettas
A vendetta is a long feud pursued with revenge in mind. A personal vendetta, pursue a vendetta, a vendetta against him.
The word came from the blood feuds of Corsica and Sardinia, where whole families were bound to avenge a killing across generations. In modern use it means a private campaign against somebody, and it is nearly always an accusation.
1nounvendettaA long feud pursued with revenge in mind.
“The newspaper seemed to have a personal vendetta against the mayor.”
vendetta is a feud.
Italian vendetta means revenge, from Latin vindicta, vengeance. Vindicate is a relative.
Latin
vindicta
Italian
vendetta — revenge
English, today
vendetta
Italian vendetta (“revenge”), from Latin vindicta. See vindicate, avenge.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA