difficile
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From late Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis, from dis- + facilis (“easy”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]difficile (comparative more difficile, superlative most difficile) (obsolete)
- Hard to work with; stubborn.
- 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.
Derived terms
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /di.fi.sil/
Audio (France): (file) - IPA(key): [d͡zifɪsɪl], [d͡zɪfɪsɪl], [d͡zɪfsɪl] (Quebec)
- Hyphenation: dif‧fi‧cile
Adjective
[edit]difficile (plural difficiles)
- difficult
- Synonym: ardu
- Antonym: facile
- Near-synonym: compliqué
- la critique est aisée mais l’art est ‘’’difficile’’’ ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- choosy, fussy, picky
- être ‘’’difficile’’’ ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- faire le ‘’’difficile’’’ ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “difficile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]difficile (comparative plus difficile, superlative le plus difficile)
Antonyms
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin difficilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]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)
Related terms
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From difficilis (“difficult, troublesome”) + -ē.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /difˈfi.ki.leː/, [d̪ɪfˈfɪkɪɫ̪eː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /difˈfi.t͡ʃi.le/, [d̪ifˈfiːt͡ʃile]
Adverb
[edit]difficilē (comparative difficilius, superlative difficilissimē)
- with difficulty
Synonyms
[edit]- (with difficulty): difficiliter, difficulter
Antonyms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Inflected form of difficilis (“difficult, troublesome”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) 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.
Middle French
[edit]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
Derived terms
[edit]- difficilement (“difficultly, with difficulty”)
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- difficil (masculine oblique singular)
Adjective
[edit]difficile m (oblique and nominative feminine singular difficile)
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