difficulté

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.fi.kyl.te/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

difficulté f (countable and uncountable, plural difficultés)

1. difficulty

   Antonym: facilité

   être en difficulté ― to 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.

Derived terms

• difficultueux

Related terms

• difficile

Descendants

• → Romanian: dificultate

Further reading

• “difficulté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultās.

Noun

difficulté f (plural difficultez)

1. difficulty

Descendants

• French: difficulté
  • → Romanian: dificultate

Old French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin difficultās.

Noun

difficulté oblique singular, f (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

Descendants

• → English: difficulty
• Middle French: difficulté
  • French: difficulté
    • → Romanian: dificultate