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Italian
Verb
diligo
- first-person singular present indicative of diligere
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Latin
Etymology
From dis- (“apart, asunder”) + legō (“to choose, to take”), or from dis- (“apart, asunder”) + Proto-Italic *legō (“to care”).
Pronunciation
Verb
dīligō (present infinitive dīligere, perfect active dīlēxī, supine dīlēctum); third conjugation
- to esteem, prize, love, have regard, to delight in (something)
- Synonym: amō
- Antonyms: exsecror, abhorreō, abōminor, dēspuō
405 CE,
Jerome,
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.
- to set apart by choosing, to single (something) out, to distinguish (something) by selecting it from among others
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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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to hold a levy: dilectum habere