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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diˈri.ɡo/, (regional) /diˈriɡ.ɡo/
- Rhymes: -iɡo, (regional) -iɡɡo
- Hyphenation: di‧rì‧go
Verb
dirigo
- first-person singular present indicative of dirigere
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *dwizregō. Equivalent to dis- + regō (“I rule, govern”).
For the meaning development compare with Russian напра́вить (naprávitʹ, “to direct, to turn, to aim, to level, to point”), отпра́вить (otprávitʹ, “to send, to dispatch, to forward”) connected with пра́вить (právitʹ, “to govern, to rule, to drive, to steer”).
Pronunciation
Verb
dīrigō (present infinitive dīrigere, perfect active dīrēxī, supine dīrēctum); third conjugation
- to lay straight; arrange in lines (especially in military contexts)
- to direct to a place, guide, steer
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 1.466:
- dīriget in mediō quis mea vēla fretō?
- Who will guide my sails amidst the sea?
- to distribute, scatter
Conjugation
Descendants
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, 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