difficulté
French
Etymology
From Middle French difficulté, from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultās.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.fi.kyl.te/
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Noun
difficulté f (plural difficultés)
- difficulty
- D'autres difficultés se présentent telle que, par exemple, celle d'identifier le véritable original d'un film.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived terms
- difficultueux
- en difficulté (“in difficulty”)
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)
- difficulty
Descendants
- French: difficulté
- Romanian: dificultate
Old French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin difficultās.
Noun
difficulté 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
- Seroient tenu a rendre sanz difficulté et sanz contredit
- 1239, author and title uncertain
Descendants
- → English: difficulty
- Middle French: difficulté
- French: difficulté
- Romanian: dificultate
- French: difficulté