English

Proper noun

Dignitas

1. A Swiss organization that helps people with terminal illnesses to die with little pain

Latin

Noun

dīgnitās f ‎(genitive dīgnitātis); third declension

1. worth, merit
2. fitness, suitability
3. esteem, standing, status, rank
4. dignity

   deus ibi magna cum dignitate sedet

   There the God sits with great dignity.

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

References

• dignitas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dignitas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• DIGNITAS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dignitas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to gain dignity; to make oneself a person of consequence: auctoritatem or dignitatem sibi conciliare, parare
    
  • to insult a person's dignity: auctoritati, dignitati alicuius illudere
    
  • to be in a dignified position: dignitas est summa in aliquo
    
  • to be in a dignified position: summa dignitate praeditum esse
    
  • to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid alienum (a) dignitate sua or merely a se ducere
    
  • to guard, maintain one's dignity: dignitatem suam tueri, defendere, retinere, obtinere
    
  • to be careful of one's dignity: dignitati suae servire, consulere
    
  • to elevate to the highest dignity: aliquem ad summam dignitatem perducere (B. G. 7. 39)
    
  • to occupy the first, second position in the state: principem (primum), secundum locum dignitatis obtinere
    
  • to occupy a very high position in the state: in altissimo dignitatis gradu collocatum, locatum, positum esse
    
  • to depose, bring down a person from his elevated position: aliquem ex altissimo dignitatis gradu praecipitare (Dom. 37. 98)
    
  • to overthrow a person (cf. sect. IX. 6): aliquem de dignitatis gradu demovere
    
  • to attain a position of dignity: dignitatis gradum ascendere