digne

See also: Digne and digné

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English digne, from Old French digne, from Latin dignus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn
• Homophone: dine

Adjective

digne (comparative more digne, superlative most digne)

1. (obsolete) worthy; honourable; deserving; suitable.
   • 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 387:

     Deeds they shall do so digne memorious glory, / song shall not suit nor Hist'ory hold the story.

Anagrams

• nidge, gnide, negid, deign, Edgin, Niğde, dinge, Dieng

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dignus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈdiŋ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈdiŋ.ne]

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• Homophone: digna (Balearic, Central)

Adjective

digne (feminine digna, masculine and feminine plural dignes)

1. worthy, deserving

   Synonym: mereixedor

   Antonym: indigne

2. decent

Derived terms

• dignament

Related terms

• dignatari
• dignificar
• dignitat

Further reading

• “digne”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Etymology

From Middle French and Old French digne (11th c.), a borrowing from Latin dignus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diɲ/

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• Rhymes: -iɲ

Adjective

digne (plural dignes)

1. worthy

   Antonym: indigne

   digne de foi ― trustworthy, credible

   digne de ce nom ― worth one's salt (literally, “worthy of that name”)

2. having dignity; dignified

   Antonym: indigne

Derived terms

• dignement

Related terms

• dignité
• indigne

Further reading

• “digne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Latin

Adjective

digne

1. vocative masculine singular of dignus

Adverb

dignē (comparative dignius, superlative dignissimē)

1. worthily, fittingly, becomingly

References

• “digne”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “digne”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “digne”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• deyne, dine, ding, dingne, dygne, dynge, dyngne

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French digne, from Latin dignus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiːn(ə)/, /ˈdi(n)ɡn(ə)/, /ˈdinɡ(ə)/

Adjective

digne

1. worthy; honourable; deserving
2. suitable; adequate; fit
3. haughty; disdainful

Derived terms

• undigne

Related terms

• condigne
• dignely
• dignyte

Descendants

• English: digne

References

• “digne, dīne, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Portuguese

Verb

digne

1. inflection of dignar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

digne

1. only used in me digne, first-person singular present subjunctive of dignarse
2. only used in se digne, third-person singular present subjunctive of dignarse
3. only used in se ... digne, syntactic variant of dígnese, third-person singular imperative of dignarse