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Italian
Etymology
Verb-object compound, composed of schiva (“to dodge, to avoid”) + fatiche (“efforts”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌski.va.faˈti.ke/[1]
- Rhymes: -ike
- Hyphenation: schi‧va‧fa‧tì‧che
Noun
schivafatiche m or f by sense (invariable) (literary)
- idler, loafer
- Synonyms: poltrone, sfaticato, scansafatiche
- Antonyms: laborioso, operoso, solerte
1840, Alessandro Manzoni, I promessi sposi, Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, Chapter XXVII, page 521:Donna Prassede […] s’era ristretta a brontolare spesso contro di lui, a nominarlo uno schivafatiche, un uomo fisso nelle sue idee, un letterato- Donna Prassede took refuge in grumbling against him as an idler, a man who would have his own way, a mere scholar
References
- ^ schivafatiche in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication