English

Adjective

difficile ‎(comparative more difficile, superlative most difficile)

1. (obsolete) Hard to work with; stubborn.
2. (obsolete) Difficult.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.185:

     […] forasmuch as he was to judge of an internall beauty, of a difficile knowledge, and abstruse discovery.

Translations

French

Etymology

Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /difisil/

Adjective

difficile m, f ‎(plural difficiles)

1. difficult

Synonyms

• exigeant

Antonyms

• facile

Related terms

• difficilement
• difficulté

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /difˈfi.tsi.le/

Adjective

difficile ‎(comparative plus difficile, superlative le plus difficile)

1. difficult

Antonyms

• facile

Italian

Etymology

From Latin difficilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /difˈfitʃile/

Adjective

difficile m, f ‎(masculine and feminine plural difficili)

1. difficult

Antonyms

• facile

Related terms

• difficilmente
• difficoltà

Latin

Etymology 1

From difficilis ‎(“difficult, troublesome”) +‎ -ē.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /difˈfi.ki.leː/

Adverb

difficilē ‎(comparable difficilius, superlative difficilissimē)

1. with difficulty

Synonyms

• (with difficulty): difficiliter, difficulter

Related terms

Etymology 2

Inflected form of difficilis ‎(“difficult, troublesome”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /difˈfi.ki.le/

Adjective

difficile

1. nominative neuter singular of difficilis
2. accusative neuter singular of difficilis
3. vocative neuter singular of difficilis
4. (New Latin) Used as a specific epithet

References

• difficile in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “difficile”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Middle French

Adjective

difficile m, f ‎(plural difficiles)

1. difficult

Norman

Etymology

From Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis.

Adjective

difficile m, f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) difficult

Derived terms

• difficilement ‎(“difficultly, with difficulty”)

Old French

Alternative forms

• difficil (masculine oblique singular)

Adjective

difficile m ‎(oblique and nominative feminine singular difficile)

1. difficult

Descendants

• French: difficile
• Norman: difficile (Jersey, Guernsey)