digna

See also: Digna and digná

Asturian

Adjective

digna

1. feminine singular of dignu

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈdiŋ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈdiŋ.na]
• Homophone: digne (Balearic, Central)

Adjective

digna f sg

1. feminine singular of digne

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French digne, Italian degno, Spanish digno, all from Latin dignus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dḱ-nós, from *deḱ- (“to take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiɡna/

Adjective

digna

1. worthy; meriting, deserving; having merit, worth, virtue

Derived terms

• digneso (“worthiness”)

Latin

Adjective

digna

1. inflection of dignus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

dignā

1. ablative feminine singular of dignus

Portuguese

Adjective

digna

1. feminine singular of digno

Verb

digna

1. inflection of dignar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-no

Proto-Italic *dek-no-

Latin dignus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin dignārelbor.

Romanian digna

Learned borrowing from Latin dignāre.

Verb

a digna (third-person singular present dignează, past participle dignat) 1st conjugation

1. to deign
2. to consider worthy

Conjugation

    conjugation of digna (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a digna
gerund			dignând
past participle			dignat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	dignez	dignezi	dignează	dignăm	dignați	dignează
	imperfect	dignam	dignai	digna	dignam	dignați	dignau
	simple perfect	dignai	dignași	dignă	dignarăm	dignarăți	dignară
	pluperfect	dignasem	dignaseși	dignase	dignaserăm	dignaserăți	dignaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să dignez	să dignezi	să digneze	să dignăm	să dignați	să digneze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		dignează			dignați
	negative		nu digna			nu dignați

Spanish

Adjective

digna

1. feminine singular of digno

Verb

digna

1. only used in se digna, third-person singular present indicative of dignarse
2. only used in te ... digna, syntactic variant of dígnate, second-person singular imperative of dignarse

Swedish

Etymology

Related to deg (“dough”). Compare Old Norse deigr (“soft”).

Verb

digna (present dignar, preterite dignade, supine dignat, imperative digna)

1. to slowly collapse (sink down, due to a heavy burden)
2. (figuratively) to be plentiful or laden

   ett dignande julbord

   a plentiful/sumptuous Christmas smorgasbord

   Träden dignade av frukt

   The trees were laden/bursting with fruit

3. (figuratively) to be overburdened, to be weighed down, to wilt

   De dignade under arbetsbördan

   They wilted under the workload

Conjugation

Conjugation of digna (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	digna		—
supine	dignat		—
imperative	digna		—
imper. plural1	dignen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	dignar	dignade	—	—
ind. plural1	digna	dignade	—	—
subjunctive2	digne	dignade	—	—
present participle		dignande
past participle		—

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

See also

• bågna

References

• “digna”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “digna”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “digna”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• digna in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)