dignitas

See also: Dignitas

Latin

Etymology

dignus +‎ -tās

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdiɡ.ni.taːs/, [ˈd̪ɪŋnɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdiɲ.ɲi.tas/, [ˈd̪iɲːit̪äs]

Noun

dignitās f (genitive dignitātis); third declension

1. worth, worthiness, merit, desert
2. fitness, suitability
3. rank, status, standing, esteem, dignity
4. dignity, greatness

   Antonyms: indignitās, ignōminia

   deus ibi magna cum dignitate sedet ― There the God sits with great dignity

5. (metonymically) a dignitary, a person of high rank, a person in high office

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dignitās	dignitātēs
Genitive	dignitātis	dignitātum
Dative	dignitātī	dignitātibus
Accusative	dignitātem	dignitātēs
Ablative	dignitāte	dignitātibus
Vocative	dignitās	dignitātēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: dignitat
• → Galician: dignidade
• → Old Irish: dignit
  • Irish: dínit
• → Italian: dignità
• Italian: degnità
• Occitan: dignitat
• Old French: deintié
  • → English: dainty
• → Old French: dignité
  • French: dignité
  • → Middle English: dignitee
    • English: dignity
• Piedmontese: dignità
• → Portuguese: dignidade
• Portuguese: dinidade
• Romanian: demnitate, dignitate
• Romansch: dignitad, dignited, dignità
• → Spanish: dignidad

References

• “dignitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dignitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dignitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• dignitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to gain dignity; to make oneself a person of consequence: auctoritatem or dignitatem sibi conciliare, parare
    
  • to insult a person's dignity: auctoritati, dignitati alicuius illudere
    
  • to be in a dignified position: dignitas est summa in aliquo
    
  • to be in a dignified position: summa dignitate praeditum esse
    
  • to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid alienum (a) dignitate sua or merely a se ducere
    
  • to guard, maintain one's dignity: dignitatem suam tueri, defendere, retinere, obtinere
    
  • to be careful of one's dignity: dignitati suae servire, consulere
    
  • to elevate to the highest dignity: aliquem ad summam dignitatem perducere (B. G. 7. 39)
    
  • to occupy the first, second position in the state: principem (primum), secundum locum dignitatis obtinere
    
  • to occupy a very high position in the state: in altissimo dignitatis gradu collocatum, locatum, positum esse
    
  • to depose, bring down a person from his elevated position: aliquem ex altissimo dignitatis gradu praecipitare (Dom. 37. 98)
    
  • to overthrow a person (cf. sect. IX. 6): aliquem de dignitatis gradu demovere
    
  • to attain a position of dignity: dignitatis gradum ascendere