indignus

indignus

1. conditional of indignar

From in- +‎ dignus (“worthy”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈdiɡ.nus/, [ɪn̪ˈd̪ɪŋnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈdiɲ.ɲus/, [in̪ˈd̪iɲːus]

indignus (feminine indigna, neuter indignum, comparative indignior, superlative indignissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. unworthy of, undeserving of (with ablative)
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.17:

     Populi Romani maiestate et superioribus victoriis indigna

     Undeserving of the majesty and former victories of the Roman people

2. unbecoming
3. shameful

First/second-declension adjective.

• dignus

• Catalan: indigne
• → English: indign
• French: indigne
• Italian: indegno
• Portuguese: indigno
• Spanish: indigno, indigna

• “indignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “indignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• indignus 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)
• indignus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be discontented, vexed at a thing; to chafe: aegre, graviter, moleste, indigne ferre aliquid
    
  • monstrous: o facinus indignum! (Ter. Andr. 1. 1. 118)
    
• Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.