Latin

Participle

dīligentia

1. nominative neuter plural of dīligēns
2. accusative neuter plural of dīligēns
3. vocative neuter plural of dīligēns

Noun

dīligentia f ‎(genitive dīligentiae); first declension

1. diligence, care, attentiveness, discipline
2. economy, frugality, thrift

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• French: diligence
• Spanish: diligencia

References

• diligentia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• diligentia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• DILIGENTIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “diligentia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to apply oneself zealously, diligently to a thing: studium, industriam (not diligentiam) collocare, ponere in aliqua re
    
• diligentia in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016