difficulté

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French difficulté, from Old French difficulté, a borrowing from Latin difficultās.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /di.fi.kyl.te/
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Noun

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difficulté f (countable and uncountable, plural difficultés)

  1. difficulty
    Antonym: facilité
    être en difficultéto be in 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.

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Descendants

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  • Romanian: dificultate

Further reading

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultās.

Noun

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difficulté f (plural difficultez)

  1. difficulty

Descendants

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Old French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin difficultās.

Noun

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difficulté oblique singularf (oblique plural difficultez, nominative singular difficulté, nominative plural difficultez)

  1. 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

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