indignus
Ido edit
Verb edit
indignus
- conditional of indignar
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From in- + dignus (“worthy”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈdiɡ.nus/, [ɪn̪ˈd̪ɪŋnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈdiɲ.ɲus/, [in̪ˈd̪iɲːus]
Adjective edit
indignus (feminine indigna, neuter indignum, comparative indignior, superlative indignissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- unworthy of, undeserving of (with ablative)
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.17:
- Populi Romani maiestate et superioribus victoriis indigna
- Undeserving of the majesty and former victories of the Roman people
- Populi Romani maiestate et superioribus victoriis indigna
- unbecoming
- shameful
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | indignus | indigna | indignum | indignī | indignae | indigna | |
| Genitive | indignī | indignae | indignī | indignōrum | indignārum | indignōrum | |
| Dative | indignō | indignō | indignīs | ||||
| Accusative | indignum | indignam | indignum | indignōs | indignās | indigna | |
| Ablative | indignō | indignā | indignō | indignīs | |||
| Vocative | indigne | indigna | indignum | indignī | indignae | indigna | |
Antonyms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: indigne
- → English: indign
- French: indigne
- Italian: indegno
- Portuguese: indigno
- Spanish: indigno, indigna
References edit
- “indignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “indignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- indignus 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)
- indignus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be discontented, vexed at a thing; to chafe: aegre, graviter, moleste, indigne ferre aliquid
- monstrous: o facinus indignum! (Ter. Andr. 1. 1. 118)
- to be discontented, vexed at a thing; to chafe: aegre, graviter, moleste, indigne ferre aliquid
- Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.