"Maudit...Italian maledetto...Maledire...opposite of benedire...

...which all have English equivalents still current, i.e. malediction and benediction.

Peculiar accompaniment: ever heard "malediction" with any other verb than "uttered"? A little like the "rosy-fingered-dawn" always occurring as a single phrase in The Oddessy. I recall that the Greeks even had a word for such concatenations-by-convention (but it never stuck in my head).