sedulo

sedulo

Italian

Etymology

    Borrowed from Latin sēdulus.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.du.lo/
    • Rhymes: -ɛdulo
    • Hyphenation: sè‧du‧lo

    Adjective

    sedulo (feminine sedula, masculine plural seduli, feminine plural sedule)

    1. (literary, rare) careful, thoughtful, attentive
      Synonym: premuroso

    Further reading

    • sedulo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

    Anagrams

    Latin

    Adjective

    sēdulō

    1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sēdulus

    Adverb

    sēdulō (not comparable)

    1. busily, zealously, purposely, designedly, carefully, diligently
      • Benedictus de Spinoza, Tractatus Politicus
        sedulo curavi, humanas actiones non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere
        I have laboured diligently, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions; but to understand them.

    References

    • sedulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • sedulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • sedulo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • (ambiguous) to take great pains in order to..: studiose (diligenter, enixe, sedulo, maxime) dare operam, ut...