digne

Inherited from Middle English digne, from Old French digne, from Latin dignus.

• IPA^(key): /daɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

digne (comparative more digne, superlative most digne)

1. (obsolete) worthy; honourable; deserving; suitable.
   • 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 387:

     Deeds they shall do so digne memorious glory, / song shall not suit nor Hist'ory hold the story.

• nidge, gnide, negid, deign, Edgin, Niğde, dinge, Dieng

Borrowed from Latin dignus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈdiŋ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈdiŋ.ne]
• Homophone: digna (Balearic, Central)

digne (feminine digna, masculine and feminine plural dignes)

1. worthy, deserving

   Synonym: mereixedor

   Antonym: indigne

2. decent

• dignament

• “digne”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Inherited from Middle French and Old French digne, a borrowing from Latin dignus.

• IPA^(key): /diɲ/

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• Rhymes: -iɲ

digne (plural dignes)

1. worthy

   Antonym: indigne

   digne de foi ― trustworthy, credible

   digne de ce nom ― worth one's salt (literally, “worthy of that name”)

2. having dignity; dignified

   Antonym: indigne

• dignement

• dignité
• indigne

• “digne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

digne

1. vocative masculine singular of dignus

dignē (comparative dignius, superlative dignissimē)

1. worthily, fittingly, becomingly

• “digne”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “digne”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• digne in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• deyne, dine, ding, dingne, dygne, dynge, dyngne

Borrowed from Old French digne, from Latin dignus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiːn(ə)/, /ˈdi(n)ɡn(ə)/, /ˈdinɡ(ə)/

digne

1. worthy; honourable; deserving
2. suitable; adequate; fit
3. haughty; disdainful

• undigne

• English: digne

• “digne, dīne, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

digne

1. inflection of dignar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

digne

1. only used in me digne, first-person singular present subjunctive of dignarse
2. only used in se digne, third-person singular present subjunctive of dignarse
3. only used in se ... digne, syntactic variant of dígnese, third-person singular imperative of dignarse