diligo

See also: deligo

Italian

Verb

diligo

1. first-person singular present indicative of diligere

Anagrams

• ligodi

Latin

Etymology

From dis- (“apart, asunder”) +‎ legō (“to choose, to take”), or from dis- (“utterly, exceedingly”) +‎ Proto-Italic *legō (“to care”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.lɪ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.li.ɡo]

Verb

dīligō (present infinitive dīligere, perfect active dīlēxī, supine dīlēctum); third conjugation

1. to esteem, prize, love, have regard, to delight in (something)

   Synonym: amō

   Antonyms: exsecror, abhorreō, abōminor, dēspuō

   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 72.3-4:

     Dīlēxī tum tē nōn tantum ut vulgus amīcam,
     sed pater ut gnātōs dīligit et generōs.

     I loved you at the time, not merely as an ordinary man does his girlfriend, but as a father loves his sons and sons-in-law.

   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Exodus.20.6:

     et faciens misericordiam in millia his qui diligunt me, et custodiunt praecepta mea.

     and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

2. to set apart by choosing, to single (something) out, to distinguish (something) by selecting it from among others

Conjugation

   Conjugation of dīligō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	dīligō		dīligis		dīligit		dīligimus		dīligitis		dīligunt
	imperfect	dīligēbam		dīligēbās		dīligēbat		dīligēbāmus		dīligēbātis		dīligēbant
	future	dīligam		dīligēs		dīliget		dīligēmus		dīligētis		dīligent
	perfect	dīlēxī		dīlēxistī		dīlēxit		dīlēximus		dīlēxistis		dīlēxērunt, dīlēxēre
	pluperfect	dīlēxeram		dīlēxerās		dīlēxerat		dīlēxerāmus		dīlēxerātis		dīlēxerant
	future perfect	dīlēxerō		dīlēxeris		dīlēxerit		dīlēxerimus		dīlēxeritis		dīlēxerint
passive	present	dīligor		dīligeris, dīligere		dīligitur		dīligimur		dīligiminī		dīliguntur
	imperfect	dīligēbar		dīligēbāris, dīligēbāre		dīligēbātur		dīligēbāmur		dīligēbāminī		dīligēbantur
	future	dīligar		dīligēris, dīligēre		dīligētur		dīligēmur		dīligēminī		dīligentur
	perfect	dīlēctus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	dīlēctus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	dīlēctus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	dīligam		dīligās		dīligat		dīligāmus		dīligātis		dīligant
	imperfect	dīligerem		dīligerēs		dīligeret		dīligerēmus		dīligerētis		dīligerent
	perfect	dīlēxerim		dīlēxerīs		dīlēxerit		dīlēxerīmus		dīlēxerītis		dīlēxerint
	pluperfect	dīlēxissem		dīlēxissēs		dīlēxisset		dīlēxissēmus		dīlēxissētis		dīlēxissent
passive	present	dīligar		dīligāris, dīligāre		dīligātur		dīligāmur		dīligāminī		dīligantur
	imperfect	dīligerer		dīligerēris, dīligerēre		dīligerētur		dīligerēmur		dīligerēminī		dīligerentur
	perfect	dīlēctus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	dīlēctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		dīlige		—		—		dīligite		—
	future	—		dīligitō		dīligitō		—		dīligitōte		dīliguntō
passive	present	—		dīligere		—		—		dīligiminī		—
	future	—		dīligitor		dīligitor		—		—		dīliguntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		dīligere			dīligī			dīligēns			—
future		dīlēctūrum esse			dīlēctum īrī			dīlēctūrus			dīligendus, dīligundus
perfect		dīlēxisse			dīlēctum esse			—			dīlēctus
future perfect		—			dīlēctum fore			—			—
perfect potential		dīlēctūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		dīligendī		dīligendō		dīligendum		dīligendō		dīlēctum		dīlēctū

Derived terms

• dīlēctiō
• dīlēctor
• dīlēctus
• dīligēns
• dīligenter
• dīligentia
• dīligibilis
• praedīligō

Related terms

• allegō
• colligō
• ēligō
• intellegō
• legō
• neglegō
• perlegō
• praelegō
• relegō
• sēligō
• sublegō

Descendants

• → Italian: diligere
• → Old Spanish: diligir

References

• “diligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “diligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “diligo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to hold a levy: dilectum habere