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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stīllicidium (“water falling drop by drop”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stil.liˈt͡ʃi.djo/
- Rhymes: -idjo
- Hyphenation: stil‧li‧cì‧dio
Noun
stillicidio m (plural stillicidi)
- a slow, steady trickle or dripping
- Synonyms: (literary) gemichio, (uncommon) stillamento
- (figurative) a continuous repetition of something annoying or tedious
- Synonym: (familiar) continuo
2013, Paolo Sorrentino, 01:47:52 from the start, in La grande bellezza, spoken by Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo):Stefania, sono quarant'anni che perdo colpi, uno stillicidio.- Stefania, I've been losing my touch for forty years now, it's never-ending.
- (literally, “Stefania, it's forty years that I'm losing shots, a trickle.”)
Derived terms
Further reading
- stillicidio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Noun
stīllicidiō
- dative/ablative singular of stīllicidium