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Translation

to bore, to weary

Word origin

From Latin taedet ('it wearies') and its noun taedium, the root behind English tedious and tedium.

Origin
Latin
Root
taedium
English cognates
tedious, tedium

Examples

.

Long speeches bore me.

.

I am tired of waiting for you.

!

Do not bore me with your questions!

The grammar runs the opposite way to English feelings-talk: the boring thing is the subject and the bored person the object, so it is , never unless you really are the one sending the film to sleep. The pattern shines in the impersonal present: , waiting bores me, with the infinitive as subject. You will occasionally meet by analogy with , but the accusative is the classical, safe construction. Teda is boring, o a bore, and enuo, boredom felt from the inside, is the other half of the story.

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This word is part of lesson 22.