diligenter

French

Etymology

diligent +‎ -er

Verb

diligenter

1. To expedite

Conjugation

Conjugation of diligenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	diligenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	diligentant /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		diligenté /di.li.ʒɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	diligente /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/	diligentes /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/	diligente /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/	diligentons /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɔ̃/	diligentez /di.li.ʒɑ̃.te/	diligentent /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/
	imperfect	diligentais /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/	diligentais /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/	diligentait /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/	diligentions /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	diligentiez /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tje/	diligentaient /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	diligentai /di.li.ʒɑ̃.te/	diligentas /di.li.ʒɑ̃.ta/	diligenta /di.li.ʒɑ̃.ta/	diligentâmes /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tam/	diligentâtes /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tat/	diligentèrent /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	diligenterai /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁe/	diligenteras /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁa/	diligentera /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁa/	diligenterons /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	diligenterez /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁe/	diligenteront /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	diligenterais /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/	diligenterais /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/	diligenterait /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/	diligenterions /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	diligenteriez /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	diligenteraient /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	diligente /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/	diligentes /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/	diligente /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/	diligentions /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	diligentiez /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tje/	diligentent /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	diligentasse /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tas/	diligentasses /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tas/	diligentât /di.li.ʒɑ̃.ta/	diligentassions /di.li.ʒɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	diligentassiez /di.li.ʒɑ̃.ta.sje/	diligentassent /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	diligente /di.li.ʒɑ̃t/	—	diligentons /di.li.ʒɑ̃.tɔ̃/	diligentez /di.li.ʒɑ̃.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Latin

Etymology

From dīligēns +‎ -ter, from the present active participle of dīligō (“I esteem, I love”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /diː.liˈɡen.ter/, [d̪iːlʲɪˈɡɛn̪t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.liˈd͡ʒen.ter/, [d̪iliˈd͡ʒɛn̪t̪er]

Adverb

dīligenter (not comparable)

1. diligently, carefully

Related terms

• dīligēns
• dīligō

References

• “diligenter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “diligenter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• diligenter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to take great pains in order to..: studiose (diligenter, enixe, sedulo, maxime) dare operam, ut...
    
  • to attend carefully: diligenter attendere (aliquid)
    
  • after mature deliberation: re diligenter considerata, perpensa
    
  • to polish, finish a work with the greatest care: perpolire, limare diligenter librum, opus
    
  • a carefully written book: liber accurate, diligenter scriptus
    
  • to keep the accounts (day-book) carefully: rationem diligenter conficere
    
• Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.