difficulté
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle French difficulté, from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultātem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
difficulté f (plural difficultés)
- difficulty
- D’autres difficultés se présentent telle que, par exemple, celle d’identifier le véritable original d’un film.
- Other difficulties present themselves; like, for example, that of identifying the true original of a film.
Derived terms[edit]
- difficultueux
- en difficulté (“in difficulty”)
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Romanian: dificultate
Further reading[edit]
- “difficulté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultās.
Noun[edit]
difficulté f (plural difficultez)
Descendants[edit]
- French: difficulté
- Romanian: dificultate
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin difficultās.
Noun[edit]
difficulté oblique singular, f (oblique plural difficultez, nominative singular difficulté, nominative plural difficultez)
- difficulty
- 1239, author and title uncertain
- Seroient tenu a rendre sanz difficulté et sanz contredit
- They will be undertaken to be given without difficulty and without objection
- 1239, author and title uncertain
Descendants[edit]
- → English: difficulty
- Middle French: difficulté
- French: difficulté
- Romanian: dificultate
- French: difficulté
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