dedignor Latin · revision 32532

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *deḱ-no-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deːˈdɪŋ.nɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [deˈdiɲ.ɲor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēdignor''' (present infinitive dēdignārī, perfect active dēdignātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ An active ''dēdignō'' is found in Late Latin.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|dignor|t2=to deem worthy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|dignor]] is from [[m|la|dignus|t=worthy]], which de Vaan treats under [[m|la|decet|t=it is fitting]] and derives from [[itc-pro|*dek-no-|t=worthy]] and [[ine-pro|*deḱ-no-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short think it perhaps not older than Augustus; their first quotation is from the ''Aeneid'', of suitors that a woman has so often scorned.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short find it most frequent in Ovid.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is to reject as unworthy, to scorn, with two accusatives (to scorn someone as a husband) or with an infinitive, to disdain to do something: in Ovid someone does not disdain to fall at Jupiter's knees.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL records an active ⟨dēdignō⟩ in Dracontius and Gregory the Great.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it to scorn, disdain, refuse.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of scorned suitors.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, who uses it most.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To reject as unworthy, [[m|en|spurn]], [[m|en|scorn]]; to feel contempt for.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # With an infinitive, to [[m|en|disdain]] to do something.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dignor]]

+ * [[dignus]]

+ * [[indignor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}