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Webster 1913 Edition
Difficile
Dif′fi-cile
,Adj.
Difficult; hard to manage; stubborn.
[Obs.]
– Dif′fi-cile-ness
, Noun.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Difficile
DIFFICILE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
difficile
difficile
English
Adjective
difficile (comparative more difficile, superlative most difficile)
- (obsolete) Hard to work with; stubborn.
- (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.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.185:
Translations
hard to work with, stubborn
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French
Etymology
Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /difisil/
Adjective
difficile m, f (plural difficiles)
Synonyms
Antonyms
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Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /difˈfi.tsi.le/
Adjective
difficile (comparative plus difficile, superlative le plus difficile)
Antonyms
Italian
Etymology
From Latin difficilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /difˈfitʃile/
Adjective
difficile m, f (masculine and feminine plural difficili)
Antonyms
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Latin
Etymology 1
From difficilis (“difficult, troublesome”) + -ē.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /difˈfi.ki.leː/
Adverb
difficilē (comparable difficilius, superlative difficilissimē)
- with difficulty
Synonyms
- (with difficulty): difficiliter, difficulter
Related terms
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Etymology 2
Inflected form of difficilis (“difficult, troublesome”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /difˈfi.ki.le/
Adjective
difficile
- nominative neuter singular of difficilis
- accusative neuter singular of difficilis
- vocative neuter singular of difficilis
- (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.
Norman
Etymology
From Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis.
Adjective
difficile m, f
Derived terms
- difficilement (“difficultly, with difficulty”)