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desidiosus

desidiosus · adv

slothful, indolent, lazy

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Where it lives

Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k
De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēsĭdĭōsus — Lewis & Short

dēsĭdĭōsus, a, um, adv.desidia, qs. full of idleness, i. e.

I slothful, indolent, lazy (for syn. cf.: piger, segnis, iners, deses, ignavus, socors, lentus, tardus, otiosus).

I Prop. (rare): qui in oppido sederent quam qui rura colerent, desidiosiores, Varr. R. R. 2 praef.: si comparer illi, sum desidiosissimus, Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 19; Col. 12, 1, 1: desidiosior in professione grammatica habebatur, Suet. Gramm. 8: qui nolet fieri desidiosus, amet, Ov. Am. 1, 9, 46: apis, Luc. 9, 288.—

II Transf., causing idleness, making lazy: si quod facit, ab eo (nominetur) quod fit, ut cum desidiosam artem dicemus, quia desidiosos facit, Auct. Her. 4, 32, 43: habet etiam amoenitas ipsa vel sumptuosas vel desidiosas illecebras multas cupiditatum, Cic. Rep. 2, 4: delectatio, id. de Or. 3, 23, 88: inertissimum et desidiosissimum otium, id. Agr. 2, 33 fin.: desidiose puer (sc. Cupido), Ov. Am. 2, 92.—* Adv.: dēsĭdĭōsē, idly: agere aetatem, Lucr. 4, 1136.

In the wild

desidioso Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 8.71.23
desidiosas Cicero, De Republica 2.8
desidiosissimus Pliny the Younger, Letters 3.5.19
desidiosa Cicero, De Oratore 3.88
desidiosissimum Cicero, De Lege Agraria 2.91
desidiosus Ovid, Amores 1.9.46

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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