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)

  1. a slow, steady trickle or dripping
    Synonyms: (literary) gemichio, (uncommon) stillamento
  2. (figurative) a continuous repetition of something annoying or tedious
    Synonym: (familiar) continuo
    • 2013, Paolo Sorrentino, 01:47:52 from the start, in La grande bellezza, spoken by Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo):
      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

Further reading
  • stillicidio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

stīllicidiō

  1. dative/ablative singular of stīllicidium
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