Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From difficilis (“difficult, troublesome”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɪf.fɪˈkʊɫ.taːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d̪if.fiˈkul̪.t̪äs]
Noun
[edit]difficultās f (genitive difficultātis); third declension
- difficulty, distress, trouble, hardship
- Synonyms: īnfortūnium, mōlēs, cūra
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | difficultās | difficultātēs |
| genitive | difficultātis | difficultātum |
| dative | difficultātī | difficultātibus |
| accusative | difficultātem | difficultātēs |
| ablative | difficultāte | difficultātibus |
| vocative | difficultās | difficultātēs |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: dificultat
- English: difficulty
- English: difficult
- Old French: difficulté
- → English: difficulty
- Middle French: difficulté
- French: difficulté
- → Romanian: dificultate
- French: difficulté
- Galician: dificultade
- Italian: difficoltà
- Occitan: dificultat
- Piedmontese: dificoltà
- Portuguese: dificuldade
- Spanish: dificultad
References
[edit]- “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
- difficultas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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