digna

digna

1. feminine singular of dignu

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Homophone: digne (Balearic, Central)

digna f sg

1. feminine singular of digne

Borrowed from French digne, Italian degno, Spanish digno, all from Latin dīgnus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dḱ-nós, from *deḱ- (“to take”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiɡna/

digna

1. worthy; meriting, deserving; having merit, worth, virtue

• digneso (“worthiness”)

digna

1. inflection of dignus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

dignā

1. ablative feminine singular of dignus

digna (að), verb

1. to become moist; to lose temper (as in steel); to lose heart

digna

1. feminine singular of digno

digna

1. inflection of dignar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Latin dignare.

a digna (third-person singular present dignează, past participle dignat) 1st conj.

1. to deign
2. to consider worthy

digna

1. feminine singular of digno

digna

1. only used in se digna, third-person singular present indicative of dignarse
2. only used in te ... digna, syntactic variant of dígnate, second-person singular imperative of dignarse

Related to deg (“dough”). Compare Old Norse deigr (“soft”).

digna (present dignar, preterite dignade, supine dignat, imperative digna)

1. to slowly collapse (sink down, due to a heavy burden)
2. (figuratively) to be plentiful or laden

   ett dignande julbord

   a plentiful/sumptuous Christmas smorgasbord

   Träden dignade av frukt

   The trees were laden/bursting with fruit

3. (figuratively) to be overburdened, to be weighed down, to wilt

   De dignade under arbetsbördan

   They wilted under the workload

• bågna

• digna in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• digna in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• digna in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• digna in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)