The story
- Latin · derived fromdēsidiōsus“slothful”
- English todaydesidious
An alteration of the Latin dēsidiōsus (“slothful”), from dēsidia (“idleness, indolence, sloth”), from dēsideō (“to sit idle”), from dē (“completely, thoroughly”) + sedeō (“to sit”); compare desidiose.
Words from the same roots
Latindēsidiōsus all →
desidiose
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.