accidia
See also: accídia
English edit
Noun edit
accidia (uncountable)
- Alternative form of acedia (“sloth”)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin acēdia.[1] Doublet of acedia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
accidia f (plural accidie)
- sloth, acedia
- 1909, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Fondazione e Manifesto del futurismo:
- Avevamo lungamente calpestata su opulenti tappeti orientali la nostra atavica accidia, discutendo davanti ai confini estremi della logica ed annerendo molta carta di frenetiche scritture.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Latin edit
Pronunciation 1 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /akˈkiː.di.a/, [äkˈkiːd̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /atˈt͡ʃi.di.a/, [ätˈt͡ʃiːd̪iä]
Noun edit
accīdia f (genitive accīdiae); first declension
- Alternative form of acēdia
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | accīdia | accīdiae |
Genitive | accīdiae | accīdiārum |
Dative | accīdiae | accīdiīs |
Accusative | accīdiam | accīdiās |
Ablative | accīdiā | accīdiīs |
Vocative | accīdia | accīdiae |
Pronunciation 2 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /akˈkiː.di.aː/, [äkˈkiːd̪iäː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /atˈt͡ʃi.di.a/, [ätˈt͡ʃiːd̪iä]
Noun edit
accīdiā f
References edit
- accidia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Moore, Christopher (2004). In Other Words. New York: Walker Pub. →ISBN.