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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From nec (“not”) + legō (“choose”), or from nec + Proto-Italic *legō (“to care”).
Pronunciation
Verb
neglegō (present infinitive neglegere, perfect active neglēxī, supine neglēctum); third conjugation
- to neglect, overlook, pass over
- Synonyms: dēserō, relinquō, omittō, dēdō, concēdō, dēcēdō, reddō, remittō, dēstituō, dēficiō, oblīvīscor, cēdō, permittō, trānsmittō, dissimulō, trādō, addīcō, praetereō, pōnō, tribuō
106 BCE – 43 BCE,
Cicero,
For Sextus Roscius of Ameria :
- quid recipis mandatum, si aut neglecturus aut ad tuum commodum conversurus es?
- Why do you undertake a commission, if you are either going to neglect it or to turn it to your own advantage?
- to be indifferent to, disregard, ignore, slight, neglect
- to despise, condemn
- Synonyms: contemnō, āspernor, detrectō, spernō, abiciō
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References
- “neglego”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “neglego”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- neglego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to leave a wrong unpunished, to ignore it: iniurias neglegere
- to neglect one's duty: officium suum deserere, neglegere
- to neglect, mismanage one's household matters: rem familiarem neglegere