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sloth (noun) –
1a : disinclination to action or labor
b : spiritual apathy and inactivity
2 : any of various slow-moving arboreal edentate mammals (genera Bradypus and Choloepus) that inhabit tropical forests of South and Central America, hang from the branches back downward, and feed on leaves, shoots, and fruits
Source : Online Etymology Dictionary
Etymology : late 12century, “indolence, sluggishness,” formed from Middle English slou, slowe (see slow (adj.)) + abstract formative -th (2). Replaced Old English slæwð “sloth, indolence.” Sense of “slowness, tardiness” is from mid-14c. As one of the deadly sins, it translates Latin accidia.
The slow-moving mammal first so called four hundred years later in the 1610s, a translation of Portuguese preguiça “slowness, slothfulness,” from Latin pigritia “laziness” (compare Spanish perezosa “slothful,” also “the sloth”).
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