neglegens
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Present active participle of neglegō (“disregard, neglect”).
Participle[edit]
neglegēns (genitive neglegentis, comparative neglegentior, superlative neglegentissimus, adverb neglegenter); third-declension one-termination participle
- being indifferent to, disregarding, ignoring, slighting, neglecting, negligent
- overlooking, passing over, neglecting
- despising, condemning
Declension[edit]
Third-declension participle.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | neglegēns | neglegentēs | neglegentia | ||
| Genitive | neglegentis | neglegentium | |||
| Dative | neglegentī | neglegentibus | |||
| Accusative | neglegentem | neglegēns | neglegentēs neglegentīs |
neglegentia | |
| Ablative | neglegente neglegentī1 |
neglegentibus | |||
| Vocative | neglegēns | neglegentēs | neglegentia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.
Descendants[edit]
- Old Italian: negghiente
- ⇒ Italian: negghienza, negligenza, negligente
- ⇒ Sicilian: nigghijenti, niggliggenti
- → Old French: negligent
References[edit]
- “neglegens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “neglegens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- neglegens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “nĕglĭgens”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 435