dignor Latin · revision 32407

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=220–130 BC, Pacuvius|origins=ine-pro *deḱ-no-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dignor''' (present infinitive dignārī, perfect active dignātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ An active ''dignō'', ''dignāre'' is also used, mostly in the passive.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|dignus|t=worthy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists [[m|la|dignus]] and this verb among the derivatives of [[m|la|decet|t=it is fitting]], tracing [[m|la|dignus]] to [[itc-pro|*dek-no-|t=worthy]] and [[ine-pro|*deḱ-no-]]; he compares [[xum|tiçit|t=ought to]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Pacuvius has it first: “since my equals did not deign to look at me”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to consider someone worthy of something, usually with the ablative: Accius asks whether he should be thought worthy of the house of Pelops, and in Virgil a speaker says she does not think herself worthy of such honour.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) With an infinitive it is to deign or think fit, and with a negative to disdain: Lucretius complains that no one deigns to look up at the bright temples of the sky, and in Virgil Dido deigns to join herself to a man.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it mostly poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The Vulgate has si dignēris audīre, “if you deign to listen”, and Church Latin glosses it to grant or vouchsafe.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius of not deigning to look at someone.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of being thought worthy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of not deigning to look at the sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – the Vulgate of deigning to listen.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To consider worthy, deem deserving of.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|deign]], think fit; with a negative, to [[m|en|disdain]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To grant, [[m|en|vouchsafe]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēdignor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dignus]]

+ * [[dignitas|alt=dignitās]]

+ * [[decet]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}