dignantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dignor, dignari, dignatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
deem/consider/think worthy/becoming/deserving/fit (to); deign, condescend;
pl. pres. ind. 3rd - Entry →digno, dignare, dignavi, dignatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
deem/consider/think worthy/becoming/deserving/fit (to); deign, condescend;
pl. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...aspernantur proceres urbisque forique quas et perpetui dignantur scrinia Sili et repetit totiens facundo Regulus ore, quique uidet..."ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...epulas quas toto orbe conquirunt nec concoquere dignantur. Ista si quis despicit, quid illi paupertas nocet? Si quis..."
Liber Decimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...matris, ne uati, ne crede, puer! superine profanum dignantur stimulare senem, cui uultus inanis extinctique orbes et poena..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...iustificam nobis mentem avertere deorum. quare nec talis dignantur visere coetus, nec se contingi patiuntur lumine claro..."