distinguo
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin distinguo (“I distinguish”).
Noun
editdistinguo (plural distinguos)
- A distinction.
- 1948, CS Lewis, Notes on the Way:
- We are told that the lady was silenced: yet it could be maintained that Jane Austen has not allowed Bingley to put forward the full strength of his position. He ought to have replied with a distinguo.
French
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editdistinguo m (plural distinguos)
Further reading
edit- “distinguo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editPronunciation
editVerb
editdistinguo
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /disˈtin.ɡʷoː/, [d̪ɪs̠ˈt̪ɪŋɡʷoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /disˈtin.ɡwo/, [d̪isˈt̪iŋɡwo]
Verb
editdistinguō (present infinitive distinguere, perfect active distīnxī, supine distīnctum); third conjugation
- to distinguish
- Synonyms: dīiūdicō, discernō, discrīminō
- 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 15.8:
- Sed pertinuit ad Deum, quo ista inspirante conscripta sunt, has duas societates suis diuersis generationibus primitus digerere atque distinguere […]
- But it suited the purpose of God, by whose inspiration these histories were composed, to arrange and distinguish from the first these two societies in their several generations […]
- Sed pertinuit ad Deum, quo ista inspirante conscripta sunt, has duas societates suis diuersis generationibus primitus digerere atque distinguere […]
- to separate, divide or part
- to adorn or decorate
Conjugation
editDescendants
edit- Catalan: distingir
- Dalmatian: distenguar
- English: distinguish
- French: distinguer
- Galician: distinguir
- Italian: distinguere
- Norman: distîndgi
- Occitan: distinguir
- Piedmontese: distingue
- Portuguese: distinguir
- Romanian: destinge, distinge
- Spanish: distinguir
References
edit- “distinguo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “distinguo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- distinguo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to furnish a book with notes, additional extracts, marks of punctuation: librum annotare, interpolare, distinguere
- to furnish a book with notes, additional extracts, marks of punctuation: librum annotare, interpolare, distinguere
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