diligent

English

Etymology

From Middle English diligent, from Old French diligent, from Latin diligens (“careful, attentive, diligent”), present participle of diligere (“to love, esteem much, literally to choose, select”), from di-, dis- (“apart”) + legere (“to choose”); see elect and select.

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Adjective

diligent (comparative more diligent, superlative most diligent)

1. Performing with intense concentration, focus, responsible regard.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:industrious

Related terms

• diligence

Translations

performing with intense concentration, focus, responsible regard

Arabic: مجتهد (ar) (mujtáhid) Armenian: աշխատասեր (hy) (ašxataser) Bulgarian: прилежен (bg), усърден (bg), старателен (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: 勤勉 (zh) (qínmiǎn), 勤 (zh) (qín), 勤奮 (zh), 勤奋 (zh) (qínfèn), 耐勞 (zh), 耐劳 (zh) (nàiláo) Czech: pilný (cs) m. Dutch: ijverig, vlijtig Esperanto: diligenta (eo) French: industrieux (fr) m., diligent (fr) m. German: fleißig (de), arbeitsam (de), eifrig (de) Hindi: मेहनती (hi) (mehnatī)

Hungarian: szorgalmas (hu) Ido: diligenta Indonesian: rajin (id) Interlingua: diligente Italian: diligente (it) Japanese: 勤勉 (ja) (きんべん, kinben) Polish: pilny (pl) m. Russian: прилежный (ru) (priléžnyj) m., усердный (ru) (usérdnyj) m., трудолюбивый (ru) (trudoljubívyj) m., работящий (ru) (rabotjáščij) m. Scottish Gaelic: dèanadach (gd) Spanish: diligente (es) Swedish: flitig (sv) Thai: ขยัน (th) Urdu: میہنتی (ur) (mehnatī)

External links

• diligent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• diligent in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Latin

Verb

dīligent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dīligō