diligentia
Latin
Etymology
From dīligēns (“diligent, careful, attentive”) + -ia.
Participle
dīligentia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of dīligēns
Noun
dīligentia f (genitive dīligentiae); first declension
- diligence, care, attentiveness, discipline
- economy, frugality, thrift
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dīligentia | dīligentiae |
| Genitive | dīligentiae | dīligentiārum |
| Dative | dīligentiae | dīligentiīs |
| Accusative | dīligentiam | dīligentiās |
| Ablative | dīligentiā | dīligentiīs |
| Vocative | dīligentia | dīligentiae |
Descendants
- → Catalan: diligència
- → French: diligence
- → Dutch: diligence
- → English: diligence
- → Italian: diligenza
- → Portuguese: diligência
- → Romanian: diligență
- → Spanish: diligencia
References
- “diligentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “diligentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- diligentia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- diligentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to apply oneself zealously, diligently to a thing: studium, industriam (not diligentiam) collocare, ponere in aliqua re
- to apply oneself zealously, diligently to a thing: studium, industriam (not diligentiam) collocare, ponere in aliqua re
- diligentia in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016