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desidiae

desidiae is a Latin form of desidia, meaning “idleness, laziness”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.23.6: Latrocinia nullam habent infamiam, quae extra fines cuiusque civitatis fiunt, atque ea iuventutis exercendae ac desidiae minuendae causa fieri praedicant.

Martial, Epigrammata 10.70.2: Desidiae tibi sum, docte Potite, reus.

Plautus, Bacchides 4.10.1083: aequom ésse puto, sed nimis nolo desídiae ei dare lúdum.

All forms of desidia (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.