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difficile

difficile is a Latin form of difficilis, meaning “difficult”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 283 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.6.1: Erant omnino itinera duo, quibus itineribus domo exire possent: unum per Sequanos, angustum et difficile, inter montem Iuram et flumen Rhodanum, vix qua singuli carri ducerentur, mons autem altissimus impendebat, ut facile perpauci prohibere possent;

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.61: … t sed mediocri prudentia? Quaeritur primum in ea quaestione quae est de natura deorum, sintne dei necne sint. Difficile est negare. Credo si in contione quaeratur, sed in huius modi sermone et in consessu familiari facillimum. it …

All forms of difficilis (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.