sedulo

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēdulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.du.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɛdulo
• Hyphenation: sè‧du‧lo

Adjective

sedulo (feminine sedula, masculine plural seduli, feminine plural sedule)

1. (literary, rare) careful, thoughtful, attentive

   Synonym: premuroso

Related terms

• sedulità

Further reading

• sedulo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• deluso, sduole

Latin

Adjective

sēdulō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sēdulus

Adverb

sēdulō (not comparable)

1. busily, zealously, purposely, designedly, carefully, diligently
   • Benedictus de Spinoza, Tractatus Politicus

     sedulo curavi, humanas actiones non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere

     I have laboured diligently, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions; but to understand them.

References

• “sedulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sedulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sedulo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to take great pains in order to..: studiose (diligenter, enixe, sedulo, maxime) dare operam, ut...