Translation
dignity
Word origin
From Latin dignitas, worth or standing, built on dignus, worthy. English dignity, dignitary, deign and indignant all descend from the same Latin adjective.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- dignitas
- English cognates
- dignity, dignitary, deign, indignant
Examples
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He worked with dignity until the last day.
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Nobody can take your dignity from you.
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She answered with quiet dignity.
The false seam. There is no -ign- in Esperanto. Nothing ends in it, nothing is built with it, and a learner who has just met -- and -- is the one most likely to see it here, because the eye wants dig--no or some such. It is not there. - is one Latin root and -o makes it a noun.
The family that is real. Digna is the adjective, dignified. , at rank 2236, is to be indignant, and that one genuinely is the same Latin root with the negating in- already attached in Latin, which Esperanto borrowed as a lump rather than assembling itself.
The fence. , worthy, at rank 983, looks like it belongs and does not. Esperanto keeps - as a root of its own: o is worth respecting, indigna is outraged, and the two behave as separate words no matter how close their Latin ancestors may have been. Treat them as unrelated and you will never build a wrong word.
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