Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 540.difficilis on page 540
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difficilis difficult
difficilis is a Latin Adjective that primarily means difficult.
Definitions for difficilis
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
hard, difficult, troublesome
English derivatives:
difficulty
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
Hard to deal with, carry out, etc., troublesome, difficult. (b) (impers., w. following cl. or phr.). (c) ex~i, from (after) a difficult position or situation; in ~i, in a difficult position. (d) (app.) performed with difficulty, laboured.
- 2
(of persons) Intractable, obdurate, inflexible. (b) (of animals) hard to manage, intractable.
Sentences with difficilis
Latin to English
Aetās longa saepe est difficilis.Compare A long life is often difficult.
Aetās difficilis potest esse beāta.Compare A difficult life can be happy.
Vēritās saepe nōn scītur (sciētur, scīta est), quod studium eius est difficile.Compare Truth often is not known (will not be known, was not known), because the study of it is difficult.
Id quidem est facile dictū sed difficile factū!Compare This is, indeed, easy to say but difficult to do!
Difficilis ... in perfecto mora est, naturaliterque quod procedere non potest, recedit.Compare To stand still on the summit of perfection is difficult, and in the natural course of things, what cannot go forward slips back.
Difficile est proprie communia dicere.Compare It is a hard task to treat what is common in a way of your own.
Fortī et fidēlī nihil est difficile.Compare Nothing is difficult for a brave and trustworthy man.
Difficile est saturam non scribere. nam quis iniquae tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus, ut teneat se...Compare It is hard not to write satire. For who is so tolerant of this unjust city, so unfeeling, as to hold himself back.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 107.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 540.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 125.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "difficilis, difficile (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/difficilis-difficile.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 107.difficilis, difficile on page 107
