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Italian
Etymology
Probably a semi-learned borrowing from Latin pigrum. See also peritarsi, which was inherited from a derivative verb pīgritārī.
Pronunciation
Adjective
pigro (feminine pigra, masculine plural pigri, feminine plural pigre, superlative pigrissimo)
- lazy
- Synonyms: fannullone, ozioso, sfaccendato, svogliato
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Latin
Etymology
From piger + -ō.
Pronunciation
Verb
pigrō (present infinitive pigrāre, perfect active pigrāvī, supine pigrātum); first conjugation
- to be indolent, slow, dilatory
- to hesitate
Conjugation
Adjective
pigrō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of piger
References
- “pigro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pigro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.