insidia

See also: insidiá

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈsi.dja/
• Rhymes: -idja
• Hyphenation: in‧sì‧dia

Etymology 1

From Latin īnsidia.

Noun

insidia f (plural insidie)

1. trick, trap

   Synonym: trappola

2. (hidden) danger, peril

   Synonym: pericolo

Related terms

• insidiare
• insidioso

Etymology 2

Verb

insidia

1. inflection of insidiare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

See the entry for īnsidiae.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈsi.di.a/, [ĩːˈs̠ɪd̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈsi.di.a/, [inˈsiːd̪iä]

Noun

īnsidia f (genitive īnsidiae); first declension

1. (usually in the plural) ambush
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.213–214:

     ubi vincere apertē nōn datur, īnsidiās armaque tēcta parant

     Where [the means] to conquer openly [or, in open battle] is not given, they prepare ambushes and hidden arms.

2. (usually in the plural) artifice, plot, snare, stratagem

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnsidia	īnsidiae
Genitive	īnsidiae	īnsidiārum
Dative	īnsidiae	īnsidiīs
Accusative	īnsidiam	īnsidiās
Ablative	īnsidiā	īnsidiīs
Vocative	īnsidia	īnsidiae

Descendants

• → Catalan: insídia
• → Galician: insidia
• → Italian: insidia
• → Portuguese: insídia
• → Spanish: insidia

References

• insidia 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)
• insidia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to set an ambuscade: insidias collocare, locare (Mil. 10. 27)
    
  • to waylay a person: insidias alicui parare, facere, struere, instruere, tendere
    
  • to place some one in ambush: aliquem in insidiis locare, collocare, ponere
    
  • to draw some one into an ambush: aliquem in insidias elicere, inducere
    
  • to place oneself in ambush: subsidere in insidiis (Mil. 19. 49)
    

Spanish

Verb

insidia

1. inflection of insidiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative