difficile
English edit
Etymology edit
From late Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis, from dis- + facilis (“easy”).
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difficile (comparative more difficile, superlative most difficile)
- (obsolete) Hard to work with; stubborn.
- (obsolete) Difficult.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.185:
- […] forasmuch as he was to judge of an internall beauty, of a difficile knowledge, and abstruse discovery.
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis.
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difficile (plural difficiles)
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Further reading edit
- “difficile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua edit
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difficile (comparative plus difficile, superlative le plus difficile)
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin difficilis.
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Adjective edit
difficile (plural difficili, superlative difficilissimo)
Noun edit
difficile m or f by sense (plural difficili)
- person who is intractable or hard to please
- 2012, John Green, translated by Giorgia Grilli, Colpa delle Stelle [The Fault in our Stars], Mondadori, page 36:
- Mi divertivo a fare la difficile.
- I enjoyed being coy.
- (literally, “I enjoyed being a hard-to-please person.”)
Noun edit
difficile m (plural difficili)
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Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
From difficilis (“difficult, troublesome”) + -ē.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /difˈfi.ki.leː/, [d̪ɪfˈfɪkɪɫ̪eː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /difˈfi.t͡ʃi.le/, [d̪ifˈfiːt͡ʃile]
Adverb edit
difficilē (comparative difficilius, superlative difficilissimē)
- with difficulty
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- (with difficulty): difficiliter, difficulter
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Etymology 2 edit
Inflected form of difficilis (“difficult, troublesome”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /difˈfi.ki.le/, [d̪ɪfˈfɪkɪɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /difˈfi.t͡ʃi.le/, [d̪ifˈfiːt͡ʃile]
Adjective edit
difficile
References edit
- “difficile”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- difficile in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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Adjective edit
difficile m or f (plural difficiles)
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis.
Adjective edit
difficile m or f
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- difficilement (“difficultly, with difficulty”)
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- difficil (masculine oblique singular)
Adjective edit
difficile m (oblique and nominative feminine singular difficile)