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English
Etymology
Latin desidiosus, from desidia (“a sitting idle”).
Adjective
desidiose (comparative more desidiose, superlative most desidiose)
- (obsolete) idle; lazy
1844, Thomas Ewbank, The Spoon:There is no doubt that such a lady, when busily engaged in making "stirabout" for her family, would hasten the movements of a desidiose boy by applying the implement she was wielding to his sconce
References
Latin
Adjective
dēsidiōse
- vocative masculine singular of dēsidiōsus
References
- “desidiose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- desidiose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.