difficile

From late Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis, from dis- + facilis (“easy”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪ.fɪ.saɪl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪ.fə.səl/

difficile (comparative more difficile, superlative most difficile)

1. (obsolete) Hard to work with; stubborn.
2. (obsolete) Difficult.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.185:

     […] forasmuch as he was to judge of an internall beauty, of a difficile knowledge, and abstruse discovery.

From Old French difficile, borrowed from Latin difficilis.

• IPA^(key): /di.fi.sil/

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difficile (plural difficiles)

1. difficult
2. choosy, fussy, picky

• compliqué
• exigeant

• facile

• difficilement
• difficulté

• “difficile” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /difˈfi.tsi.le/

difficile (comparative plus difficile, superlative le plus difficile)

1. difficult

• facile

From Latin difficilis.

• IPA^(key): /difˈfitʃile/

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difficile (masculine and feminine plural difficili)

1. difficult

• facile

• difficilmente
• difficoltà

From difficilis (“difficult, troublesome”) +‎ -ē.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /difˈfi.ki.leː/, [dɪfˈfɪ.kɪ.ɫeː]

difficilē (comparative difficilius, superlative difficilissimē)

1. with difficulty

• (with difficulty): difficiliter, difficulter

Inflected form of difficilis (“difficult, troublesome”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /difˈfi.ki.le/, [dɪfˈfɪ.kɪ.ɫɛ]

difficile

1. nominative neuter singular of difficilis
2. accusative neuter singular of difficilis
3. vocative neuter singular of difficilis
4. (New Latin) Used as a specific epithet

• difficile in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• difficile in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

difficile m or f (plural difficiles)

1. difficult

From Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis.

difficile m or f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) difficult

• difficilement (“difficultly, with difficulty”)

• difficil (masculine oblique singular)

difficile m (oblique and nominative feminine singular difficile)

1. difficult

• French: difficile
• Norman: difficile (Jersey, Guernsey)