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French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French difficulté, from Old French difficulté, a borrowing from Latin difficultās.
Pronunciation
Noun
difficulté f (countable and uncountable, plural difficultés)
- difficulty
- Antonym: facilité
- être en difficulté ― to be in difficulty
D'autres difficultés se présentent telle que, par exemple, celle d'identifier le véritable original d'un film.- Other difficulties present themselves; like, for example, that of identifying the true original of a film.
Derived terms
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Further reading
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultās.
Noun
difficulté f (plural difficultez)
- difficulty
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Old French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin difficultās.
Noun
difficulté oblique singular, f (oblique plural difficultez, nominative singular difficulté, nominative plural difficultez)
- difficulty
- 1239, author and title uncertain
Seroient tenu a rendre sanz difficulté et sanz contredit- They will be undertaken to be given without difficulty and without objection
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