diligentia

Latin

Etymology

From dīligēns (“diligent, careful, attentive”) +‎ -ia.

Participle

dīligentia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of dīligēns

Noun

dīligentia f (genitive dīligentiae); first declension

  1. diligence, care, attentiveness, discipline
  2. 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

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
  • diligentia in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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