dirigo
Italian
Verb
dirigo
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From dis- + regō (“I rule, govern”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈdiː.ri.ɡoː/, [ˈd̪iːrɪɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdi.ri.ɡo/, [ˈd̪iːriɡo]
Verb
dīrigō (present infinitive dīrigere, perfect active dīrēxī, supine dīrēctum); third conjugation
- I lay straight; arrange in lines (especially in military contexts)
- I direct, steer
- I distribute, scatter
Conjugation
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Italian: dirigere
- Old Occitan:
- ⇒ Catalan: adergar (prefixed)
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- → Albanian: dërgoj
- → Asturian: dirixir
- → Catalan: dirigir
- → Dutch: dirigeren
- → French: diriger
- → Dutch: dirigeren
- → Romanian: dirija
- → Russian: дирижировать (dirižirovatʹ)
- → Galician: dirixir
- → German: dirigieren
- → Luxembourgish: dirigéieren
- → Norwegian: dirigere
- → Polish: dyrygować
- → Portuguese: dirigir
- → Romanian: dirigui
- → Spanish: dirigir
References
- “dirigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dirigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dirigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to journey towards a place: iter aliquo dirigere, intendere
- to measure something by the standard of something else; to make something one's criterion: dirigere or referre aliquid ad aliquam rem
- to set one's course for a place: cursum dirigere aliquo
- to journey towards a place: iter aliquo dirigere, intendere