distinguo

From Latin distinguo (“I distinguish”).

distinguo (plural distinguos)

1. A distinction.
   • 1948, CS Lewis, Notes on the Way:

     We are told that the lady was silenced: yet it could be maintained that Jane Austen has not allowed Bingley to put forward the full strength of his position. He ought to have replied with a distinguo.

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distinguo m (plural distinguos)

1. distinguo

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

• IPA^(key): /disˈtin.ɡwo/
• Rhymes: -inɡwo
• Hyphenation: di‧stìn‧guo

distinguo

1. first-person singular present indicative of distinguere

• disgiunto

From dis- +‎ stinguō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɪsˈtɪŋ.ɡʷoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪isˈt̪iŋ.ɡʷo]

distinguō (present infinitive distinguere, perfect active distīnxī, supine distīnctum); third conjugation

1. to distinguish

   Synonyms: dīiūdicō, discernō, discrīminō

   • 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 15.8:

     Sed pertinuit ad Deum, quo ista inspirante conscripta sunt, has duas societates suis diuersis generationibus primitus digerere atque distinguere […]

     But it suited the purpose of God, by whose inspiration these histories were composed, to arrange and distinguish from the first these two societies in their several generations […]

2. to separate, divide or part

   Synonyms: sēgregō, sēparō, findō, dirimō, secō, exclūdō, dīvidō, sēcernō, intersaepiō, dīvertō, discrībō

   Antonyms: illigō, colligō, ligō, nectō, cōnectō

3. to adorn or decorate

   Synonyms: ōrnō, exōrnō, adōrnō, decorō

• “distinguo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “distinguo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• distinguo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to furnish a book with notes, additional extracts, marks of punctuation: librum annotare, interpolare, distinguere