diligo

diligo

1. first-person singular present indicative of diligere

• ligodi

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.lɪ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪iː.li.ɡo]

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

   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 72.3-4:

     Dīlēxī tum tē nōn tantum ut vulgus amīcam,
     sed pater ut gnātōs dīligit et generōs.

     I loved you at the time, not merely as an ordinary man does his girlfriend, but as a father loves his sons and sons-in-law.

   • 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

• → Italian: diligere
• → Old Spanish: diligir

• “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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to hold a levy: dilectum habere