Dignitar

See also: dignitar, dignitär, and Dignitär

German

Alternative forms

Dignitär

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian dignitario or French dignitaire, from Medieval Latin dignitārius, from Latin dignitās.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌdɪɡnɪˈtaːɐ̯/
Hyphenation: Dig‧ni‧tar

Noun

Dignitar m (strong, genitive Dignitars, plural Dignitare)

(Roman Catholicism) dignitary (important or influential person)
Synonym: Würdenträger

Declension

Declension of Dignitar [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Dignitar	die	Dignitare
genitive	eines	des	Dignitars	der	Dignitare
dative	einem	dem	Dignitar	den	Dignitaren
accusative	einen	den	Dignitar	die	Dignitare

Related terms

nouns

Dignitas
Dignität

Descendants

→ Polish: dygnitarz

Further reading

“Dignitar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“Dignitar” in Duden online
“Dignitar”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
“Dignitar” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

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