accidia

English

Noun

accidia (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of acedia (“sloth”)

Italian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin acēdia. 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

• accidioso

References

Anagrams

• acadici, acidica

Latin

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /akˈkiː.di.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /atˈt͡ʃi.di.a/,

Noun

accīdia f (genitive accīdiae); first declension

1. Alternative form of acēdia

Declension

First-declension noun.

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /akˈkiː.di.aː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /atˈt͡ʃi.di.a/,

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.