Difficile

Origin

From late Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis, from dis- + facilis ("easy").

Full definition of difficile

Adjective

1. (obsolete) Hard to work with; stubborn.
2. (obsolete) Difficult.
• 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 185:... forasmuch as he was to judge of an internall beauty, of a difficile knowledge, and abstruse discovery.