desidiose

English

Etymology

Latin desidiosus, from desidia (“a sitting idle”).

Adjective

desidiose (comparative more desidiose, superlative most desidiose)

1. (obsolete) idle; lazy
   • 1844, Thomas Ewbank, The Spoon:

     There is no doubt that such a lady, when busily engaged in making "stirabout" for her family, would hasten the movements of a desidiose boy by applying the implement she was wielding to his sconce

References

• “desidiose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Adjective

dēsidiōse

1. vocative masculine singular of dēsidiōsus

References

• “desidiose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• desidiose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.