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difficultas
difficultas
Latin
Noun
difficultās f (genitive difficultātis); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | difficultās | difficultātēs |
| genitive | difficultātis | difficultātum |
| dative | difficultātī | difficultātibus |
| accusative | difficultātem | difficultātēs |
| ablative | difficultāte | difficultātibus |
| vocative | difficultās | difficultātēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- English: difficulty
References
- difficultas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- difficultas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “difficultas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be in a dilemma; in difficulties: in angustiis, difficultatibus, esse or versari
- to be in a dilemma; in difficulties: angustiis premi, difficultatibus affici
- to be in severe pecuniary straits: in summa difficultate nummaria versari (Verr. 2. 28. 69)
- want of corn; scarcity in the corn-market: difficultas annonae (Imp. Pomp. 15. 44)
- to be in a dilemma; in difficulties: in angustiis, difficultatibus, esse or versari