diligentia

Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) dīligentia

1. nominative neuter plural of dīligēns
2. accusative neuter plural of dīligēns
3. vocative neuter plural of dīligēns

Etymology

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

Noun

dīligentia f (genitive dīligentiae); first declension

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

Declension

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

• Catalan: diligència
• French: diligence
• 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’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
    
• diligentia in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016