accidia

See also: accídia

English

Noun

accidia (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of acedia (sloth)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin acēdia.[1] Doublet of acedia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /atˈt͡ʃi.dja/
  • Rhymes: -idja
  • Hyphenation: ac‧cì‧dia

Noun

accidia f (plural accidie)

  1. sloth, acedia
    • 1909, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Fondazione e Manifesto del futurismo:
      Avevamo lungamente calpestata su opulenti tappeti orientali la nostra atavica accidia, discutendo davanti ai confini estremi della logica ed annerendo molta carta di frenetiche scritture.
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Derived terms

References

  1. “accidia” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation 1

Noun

accīdia f (genitive accīdiae); first declension

  1. Alternative form of acēdia
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative accīdia accīdiae
Genitive accīdiae accīdiārum
Dative accīdiae accīdiīs
Accusative accīdiam accīdiās
Ablative accīdiā accīdiīs
Vocative accīdia accīdiae

Pronunciation 2

Noun

accīdiā f

  1. ablative singular of accīdia

References

  • accidia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Moore, Christopher (2004). In Other Words. New York: Walker Pub. →ISBN.
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