distinguo
English
Etymology
From Latin distinguo (“I distinguish”).
Noun
distinguo (plural distinguos)
- A distinction.
- 1948, CS Lewis, ‘Notes on the Way’:
- We are told that the lady was silenced: yet it could be maintained that Jane Austen has not allowed Bingley to put forward the full strength of his position. He ought to have replied with a distinguo.
- 1948, CS Lewis, ‘Notes on the Way’:
French
Pronunciation
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Noun
distinguo m (plural distinguos)
- distinguo
Further reading
- “distinguo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diˈstin.ɡwo/
- Rhymes: -inɡwo
- Hyphenation: di‧stìn‧guo
Verb
distinguo
- first-person singular present indicative of distinguere
Anagrams
- disgiunto
Latin
Etymology
From dis- + stinguō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /disˈtin.ɡʷoː/, [d̪ɪs̠ˈt̪ɪŋɡʷoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /disˈtin.ɡwo/, [d̪isˈt̪iŋɡwo]
Verb
distinguō (present infinitive distinguere, perfect active distīnxī, supine distīnctum); third conjugation
- I distinguish
- Synonyms: sēcernō, sēparō
- 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 15.8:
- Sed pertinuit ad Deum, quo ista inspirante conscripta sunt, has duas societates suis diuersis generationibus primitus digerere atque distinguere […]
- But it suited the purpose of God, by whose inspiration these histories were composed, to arrange and distinguish from the first these two societies in their several generations […]
- Sed pertinuit ad Deum, quo ista inspirante conscripta sunt, has duas societates suis diuersis generationibus primitus digerere atque distinguere […]
- I separate, divide or part
- Synonyms: sēgregō, sēparō, findō, dirimō, secō, exclūdō, dīvidō, sēcernō, intersaepiō, dīvertō, discrībō
- Antonyms: illigō, colligō, ligō, nectō, cōnectō
- I adorn or decorate
- Synonyms: ōrnō, exōrnō, adōrnō, decorō
Conjugation
| Conjugation of distinguō (third conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | distinguō | distinguis | distinguit | distinguimus | distinguitis | distinguunt |
| imperfect | distinguēbam | distinguēbās | distinguēbat | distinguēbāmus | distinguēbātis | distinguēbant | |
| future | distinguam | distinguēs | distinguet | distinguēmus | distinguētis | distinguent | |
| perfect | distīnxī | distīnxistī | distīnxit | distīnximus | distīnxistis | distīnxērunt, distīnxēre | |
| pluperfect | distīnxeram | distīnxerās | distīnxerat | distīnxerāmus | distīnxerātis | distīnxerant | |
| future perfect | distīnxerō | distīnxeris | distīnxerit | distīnxerimus | distīnxeritis | distīnxerint | |
| passive | present | distinguor | distingueris, distinguere | distinguitur | distinguimur | distinguiminī | distinguuntur |
| imperfect | distinguēbar | distinguēbāris, distinguēbāre | distinguēbātur | distinguēbāmur | distinguēbāminī | distinguēbantur | |
| future | distinguar | distinguēris, distinguēre | distinguētur | distinguēmur | distinguēminī | distinguentur | |
| perfect | distīnctus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | distīnctus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | distīnctus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | distinguam | distinguās | distinguat | distinguāmus | distinguātis | distinguant |
| imperfect | distinguerem | distinguerēs | distingueret | distinguerēmus | distinguerētis | distinguerent | |
| perfect | distīnxerim | distīnxerīs | distīnxerit | distīnxerīmus | distīnxerītis | distīnxerint | |
| pluperfect | distīnxissem | distīnxissēs | distīnxisset | distīnxissēmus | distīnxissētis | distīnxissent | |
| passive | present | distinguar | distinguāris, distinguāre | distinguātur | distinguāmur | distinguāminī | distinguantur |
| imperfect | distinguerer | distinguerēris, distinguerēre | distinguerētur | distinguerēmur | distinguerēminī | distinguerentur | |
| perfect | distīnctus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | distīnctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | distingue | — | — | distinguite | — |
| future | — | distinguitō | distinguitō | — | distinguitōte | distinguuntō | |
| passive | present | — | distinguere | — | — | distinguiminī | — |
| future | — | distinguitor | distinguitor | — | — | distinguuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | distinguere | distīnxisse | distīnctūrum esse | distinguī | distīnctum esse | distīnctum īrī | |
| participles | distinguēns | — | distīnctūrus | — | distīnctus | distinguendus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| distinguendī | distinguendō | distinguendum | distinguendō | distīnctum | distīnctū | ||
Descendants
- Catalan: distingir
- Dalmatian: distenguar
- English: distinguish
- French: distinguer
- Galician: distinguir
- Italian: distinguere
- Norman: distîndgi
- Occitan: distinguir
- Piedmontese: distingue
- Portuguese: distinguir
- Romanian: destinge, distinge
- Spanish: distinguir
References
- “distinguo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “distinguo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- distinguo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to furnish a book with notes, additional extracts, marks of punctuation: librum annotare, interpolare, distinguere
- to furnish a book with notes, additional extracts, marks of punctuation: librum annotare, interpolare, distinguere