Etymology

From Latin difficultās ‎(“difficulty”), from difficilis ‎(“difficult, troublesome”), from facilis ‎(“easy”), from faciō ‎(“I do, I make”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‎(“to put, place, set”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /di.fi.kuɫ.ˈða.ðɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.ˌfi.kuw.ˈda.d͡ʒi/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.ˌfi.kuw.ˈda.de/
• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /di.fi.kuw.ˈda.di/
• Hyphenation: di‧fi‧cul‧da‧de