sedulo

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēdulus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.du.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛdulo
  • Hyphenation: sè‧du‧lo

Adjective

sedulo (feminine sedula, masculine plural seduli, feminine plural sedule)

  1. (literary, rare) careful, thoughtful, attentive
    Synonym: premuroso

Further reading

  • sedulo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

sēdulō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sēdulus

Adverb

sēdulō (not comparable)

  1. busily, zealously, purposely, designedly, carefully, diligently
    • Benedictus de Spinoza, Tractatus Politicus
      sedulo curavi, humanas actiones non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere
      I have laboured diligently, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions; but to understand them.

References

  • sedulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sedulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sedulo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to take great pains in order to..: studiose (diligenter, enixe, sedulo, maxime) dare operam, ut...
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