difficulté
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French difficulté, from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultātem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
difficulté f (plural difficultés)
- difficulty
- D’autres difficultés se présentent telle que, par exemple, celle d’identifier le véritable original d’un film.
- Other difficulties present themselves; like, for example, that of identifying the true original of a film.
Derived terms edit
- difficultueux
- en difficulté (“in difficulty”)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Romanian: dificultate
Further reading edit
- “difficulté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultās.
Noun edit
difficulté f (plural difficultez)
Descendants edit
- French: difficulté
- Romanian: dificultate
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin difficultās.
Noun edit
difficulté oblique singular, f (oblique plural difficultez, nominative singular difficulté, nominative plural difficultez)
- difficulty
- 1239, author and title uncertain
- Seroient tenu a rendre sanz difficulté et sanz contredit
- They will be undertaken to be given without difficulty and without objection
- 1239, author and title uncertain
Descendants edit
- → English: difficulty
- Middle French: difficulté
- French: difficulté
- Romanian: dificultate
- French: difficulté
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