digne Latin · revision 33811

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *deḱ-no-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dignē''' (comparative dignius, superlative dignissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dignus|-ē|t1=worthy]], the adverb of the adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces [[m|la|dignus]] to [[itc-pro|*dek-no-|t=worthy]] and [[ine-pro|*deḱ-no-]], from the same root as [[m|la|decet|t=it is fitting]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Miles gloriosus'': how becomingly she walks, not like a courtesan.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Besides “becomingly”, Plautus uses it in the ''Casina'' for “as is fitting, rightly”, of cooks who see to it that the old man gets no dinner, and Cicero of a wrong that no law could avenge as it deserved.^(TLL) The TLL finds the comparative from Horace and the superlative from Tertullian.^(TLL) An inscription spells it ⟨dicne⟩.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of walking becomingly.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of avenging a wrong as it deserved.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace, the first comparative.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian, the first superlative.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In a fitting manner, [[m|en|appropriately]], [[m|en|worthily]], becomingly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

+ # As is right, deservedly.^(TLL)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dignus]]

+ * [[indignē]]

+ * [[decet]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}