diligentia
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From dīligēns (“diligent, careful, attentive”) + -ia.
Participle[edit]
dīligentia
Noun[edit]
dīligentia f (genitive dīligentiae); first declension
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | dīligentia | dīligentiae |
Genitive | dīligentiae | dīligentiārum |
Dative | dīligentiae | dīligentiīs |
Accusative | dīligentiam | dīligentiās |
Ablative | dīligentiā | dīligentiīs |
Vocative | dīligentia | dīligentiae |
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: diligència
- → French: diligence
- → Italian: diligenza
- → Portuguese: diligência
- → Romanian: diligență
- → Spanish: diligencia
References[edit]
- “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’s 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
- to apply oneself zealously, diligently to a thing: studium, industriam (not diligentiam) collocare, ponere in aliqua re
- diligentia in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016