stillicidio
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stīllicidium (“water falling drop by drop”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stil.liˈt͡ʃi.djo/
- Rhymes: -idjo
- Hyphenation: stil‧li‧cì‧dio
Noun
stillicidio m (plural stillicidi)
- a slow, steady trickle or dripping
- Synonyms: (literary) gemichio, (uncommon) stillamento
- (figurative) a continuous repetition of something annoying or tedious
- Synonym: (familiar) continuo
- 2013, Paolo Sorrentino, La grande bellezza, spoken by Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo), 01:47:52 from the start:
- Stefania, sono quarant'anni che perdo colpi, uno stillicidio.
- Stefania, I've been losing my touch for forty years now, it's never-ending.
- (literally, “Stefania, it's forty years that I'm losing shots, a trickle.”)
Derived terms
- stillicidioso
Related terms
- stilla
- stillamento
- stillare
Further reading
- stillicidio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Noun
stīllicidiō
- dative/ablative singular of stīllicidium