accidia

See also: accídia

English

Noun

accidia (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of acedia (“sloth”)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin acēdia. Doublet of acedia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /atˈt͡ʃi.dja/
• Rhymes: -idja
• Hyphenation: ac‧cì‧dia

Noun

accidia f (plural accidie)

1. sloth, acedia
   • 1909, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Fondazione e Manifesto del futurismo:

     Avevamo lungamente calpestata su opulenti tappeti orientali la nostra atavica accidia, discutendo davanti ai confini estremi della logica ed annerendo molta carta di frenetiche scritture.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• accidioso

Anagrams

• acadici, acidica

Latin

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /akˈkiː.di.a/, [äkˈkiːd̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /atˈt͡ʃi.di.a/, [ätˈt͡ʃiːd̪iä]

Noun

accīdia f (genitive accīdiae); first declension

1. Alternative form of acēdia

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	accīdia	accīdiae
genitive	accīdiae	accīdiārum
dative	accīdiae	accīdiīs
accusative	accīdiam	accīdiās
ablative	accīdiā	accīdiīs
vocative	accīdia	accīdiae

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /akˈkiː.di.aː/, [äkˈkiːd̪iäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /atˈt͡ʃi.di.a/, [ätˈt͡ʃiːd̪iä]

Noun

accīdiā f

1. ablative singular of accīdia

References

• accidia 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)
• Moore, Christopher (2004). In Other Words. New York: Walker Pub. →ISBN.