insidia

See also: insidiá

Italian

Noun

insidia f (plural insidie)

1. trick, trap
2. (hidden) danger, peril

Synonyms

• (1) trappola
• (2) pericolo

Related terms

• insidiare
• insidioso

Verb

insidia

1. third-person singular present of insidiare
2. second-person singular imperative of insidiare

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈsi.di.a/, [ĩːˈs̠ɪd̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈsi.di.a/, [inˈsiːd̪iä]

Noun

īnsidia f (genitive īnsidiae); first declension

1. (usually in the plural) ambush
2. (usually in the plural) artifice, plot, snare

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnsidia	īnsidiae
Genitive	īnsidiae	īnsidiārum
Dative	īnsidiae	īnsidiīs
Accusative	īnsidiam	īnsidiās
Ablative	īnsidiā	īnsidiīs
Vocative	īnsidia	īnsidiae

References

• insidia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• insidia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to set an ambuscade: insidias collocare, locare (Mil. 10. 27)
    
  • to waylay a person: insidias alicui parare, facere, struere, instruere, tendere
    
  • to place some one in ambush: aliquem in insidiis locare, collocare, ponere
    
  • to draw some one into an ambush: aliquem in insidias elicere, inducere
    
  • to place oneself in ambush: subsidere in insidiis (Mil. 19. 49)
    

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Spanish

Verb

insidia

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of insidiar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of insidiar.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of insidiar.