farniente
See also: far niente and far-niente
FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- far niente (obsolete)
- far-niente (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From Italian far niente (“doing nothing”), as in dolce far niente. Compare fainéant (“idler”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
farniente m (countable and uncountable, plural farnientes)
- dolce far niente, sweet idleness
- Hypernym: oisiveté
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “farniente” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “farniente”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.