diligentia

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin dīligēns

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin dīligentia

From dīligēns (“diligent, careful, attentive”) + -ia.

Participle

dīligentia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of dīligēns

Noun

dīligentia f (genitive dīligentiae); first declension

1. diligence, care, attentiveness, discipline
2. economy, frugality, thrift

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dīligentia	dīligentiae
genitive	dīligentiae	dīligentiārum
dative	dīligentiae	dīligentiīs
accusative	dīligentiam	dīligentiās
ablative	dīligentiā	dīligentiīs
vocative	dīligentia	dīligentiae

Descendants

• → Catalan: diligència
• → French: diligence
  • → Dutch: diligence
  • → English: diligence
  • → Persian: دلیجان (delijân)
• → Italian: diligenza
• → Portuguese: diligência
• → Romanian: diligență
• → Spanish: diligencia

References

• “diligentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “diligentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "diligentia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “diligentia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to apply oneself zealously, diligently to a thing: studium, industriam (not diligentiam) collocare, ponere in aliqua re
    
• diligentia in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016