difficulté

From Middle French difficulté, from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultās.

• IPA^(key): /di.fi.kyl.te/

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difficulté f (plural difficultés)

1. difficulty

   D'autres difficultés se présentent telle que, par exemple, celle d'identifier le véritable original d'un film.

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• difficultueux
• en difficulté (“in difficulty”)

• difficile

• Romanian: dificultate

• “difficulté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultās.

difficulté f (plural difficultez)

1. difficulty

• French: difficulté
  • Romanian: dificultate

Learned borrowing from Latin difficultās.

difficulté f (oblique plural difficultez, nominative singular difficulté, nominative plural difficultez)

1. 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

• → English: difficulty
• Middle French: difficulté
  • French: difficulté
    • Romanian: dificultate