diligo

diligo

1. first-person singular present indicative of diligere

• ligodi

From dis- (“apart, asunder”) +‎ legō (“to choose, to take”), or from dis- (“apart, asunder”) +‎ Proto-Italic *legō (“to care”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.li.ɡoː/, [ˈd̪iːlʲɪɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.li.ɡo/, [ˈd̪iːliɡo]

dīligō (present infinitive dīligere, perfect active dīlēxī, supine dīlēctum); third conjugation

1. to esteem, prize, love, have regard, to delight in (something)

   Synonym: amō

   Antonyms: exsecror, abhorreō, abōminor, dēspuō

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Exodus.20.6:

     et faciens misericordiam in millia his qui diligunt me, et custodiunt praecepta mea.

     and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

2. to set apart by choosing, to single (something) out, to distinguish (something) by selecting it from among others

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• → Italian: diligere
• Portuguese: deleitar
• Spanish: deleitar

• “diligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “diligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• diligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to hold a levy: dilectum habere