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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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.

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.