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
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Long speeches bore me.
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I am tired of waiting for you.
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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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