difficultas

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Latin

Etymology

From difficilis (“difficult, troublesome”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

Noun

difficultās f (genitive difficultātis); third declension

  1. difficulty, distress, trouble, hardship
    Synonyms: īnfortūnium, mōlēs, cūra

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative difficultās difficultātēs
genitive difficultātis difficultātum
dative difficultātī difficultātibus
accusative difficultātem difficultātēs
ablative difficultāte difficultātibus
vocative difficultās difficultātēs

Descendants

References

  • “difficultas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “difficultas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • difficultas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be in a dilemma; in difficulties: in angustiis, difficultatibus, esse or versari
    • to be in a dilemma; in difficulties: angustiis premi, difficultatibus affici
    • to be in severe pecuniary straits: in summa difficultate nummaria versari (Verr. 2. 28. 69)
    • want of corn; scarcity in the corn-market: difficultas annonae (Imp. Pomp. 15. 44)
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