desidia

From dēses +‎ -ia.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈsi.di.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈsi.di.a/,

dēsidia f (genitive dēsidiae); first declension

1. idleness
2. inactivity

   Synonyms: pigritia, segnitia, ignavia, inertia, sōcordia, ōtium

   Antonyms: impigritās, alacritās, strēnuitās, āctīvitās

3. laziness, indolence, sloth

First-declension noun.

• Medieval Latin: dēsideus, dēsidium n (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: desídia
• → Italian: desidia
• → Portuguese: desídia
• → Spanish: desidia

From dēsīdō +‎ -ia.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈsiː.di.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈsi.di.a/,

dēsīdia f (genitive dēsīdiae); first declension

1. retiring

First-declension noun.

• “desidia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “desidia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• desidia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to abandon oneself to inactivity and apathy: desidiae et languori se dedere
    

Borrowed from Latin dēsidia.

• IPA^(key): /deˈsidja/
• Rhymes: -idja
• Syllabification: de‧si‧dia

desidia f (plural desidias)

1. negligence, idleness, inaction; slovenliness

   Synonyms: dejadez, negligencia

   • 2015 November 13, “La resurrección del pueblo sepultado en el lodo”, in El País‎:

     La radio les avisó de la tragedia: Armero, una próspera población algodonera de 50.000 habitantes, a cuatro horas de Bogotá, había sido arrasada por la furia de la naturaleza y la desidia del Estado.

     The radio informed them of the tragedy: Armero, a prosperous cotton town of 50,000 inhabitants, four hours from Bogotá, had been devastated by a natural fury and the slovenliness of the State.

2. procrastination
   • 1885, Emilia Pardo Bazán, El cisne de Vilamorta, Chapter 24:

     Las villitas así, en invierno, son capaces de producir murria al más alegre: son la raíz cuadrada del fastidio, la quintaesencia del esplín, la desidia de peinarse, la pereza de vestirse, la interminable noche, el aguacero terco, el frío lúgubre, el aire color de ceniza y el cielo color de panza de burro...

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   Synonym: procrastinación

• “desidia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10