insidia

• IPA^(key): /inˈsi.dja/
• Rhymes: -idja
• Hyphenation: in‧sì‧dia

From Latin īnsidia.

insidia f (plural insidie)

1. trick, trap

   Synonym: trappola

2. (hidden) danger, peril

   Synonym: pericolo

• insidiare
• insidioso

insidia

1. inflection of insidiare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• insidia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the entry for īnsidiae.

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

īnsidia f (genitive īnsidiae); first declension

1. (usually in the plural) ambush
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.213–214:

     ubi vincere apertē nōn datur, īnsidiās armaque tēcta parant

     Where to conquer openly is not given, they prepare ambushes and hidden arms.

2. (usually in the plural) artifice, plot, snare, stratagem

First-declension noun.

• → Catalan: insídia
• → Galician: insidia
• → Italian: insidia
• → Portuguese: insídia
• → Spanish: insidia

• insidia 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)
• insidia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to set an ambuscade: insidias collocare, locare (Mil. 10. 27)
    
  • to waylay a person: insidias alicui parare, facere, struere, instruere, tendere
    
  • to place some one in ambush: aliquem in insidiis locare, collocare, ponere
    
  • to draw some one into an ambush: aliquem in insidias elicere, inducere
    
  • to place oneself in ambush: subsidere in insidiis (Mil. 19. 49)
    

insidia

1. inflection of insidiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative