dignissime
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dignus, digna -um, dignior -or -us, dignissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
appropriate/suitable; worthy, deserving, meriting; worth (w/ABL/GEN);
voc. sg. (m.) - Entry →digne, dignius, dignissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
worthily; appropriately/suitably; in a fitting manner; becomingly (L+S);
Examples
Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...tristia fata!et tibi, non fidae gentis dignissime regno,fortunae, Ptolemaee, pudor crimenque deorum,cingere Pellaeo pressos diademate..."Satura XIII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...Faesidium laudat uocalis agentem sportula? dic, senior bulla dignissime, nescis quas habeat ueneres aliena pecunia? nescis quem..."
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...dulcissime et hac cui tam fideliter inhaeres quiete dignissime, non habeo diu probandam libellorum istorum temeritatem, cum scias..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...formosa videri. tunc sic orsa loqui: "puer o dignissime credi esse deus, seu tu deus es, potes esse..."
