accidia
See also: accídia
English
Noun
accidia (uncountable)
- 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)
- 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
- ^ “accidia” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation 1
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [akˈkiː.di.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [atˈt͡ʃiː.d̪i.a]
Noun
accīdia f (genitive accīdiae); first declension
- 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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [akˈkiː.di.aː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [atˈt͡ʃiː.d̪i.a]
Noun
accīdiā f
- 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.