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Where does “diligere” come from?

diligere (Latin) comes from Latin legere, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ-s, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

diligere (Latin): second-person singular future passive indicative...

Definitions

  1. second-person singular future passive indicative...

Ancestry of “diligere”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinlegeresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
2Latinlegō—
3Latinlēx—
4Proto-Italiclēg-—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-s—
6Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

Words derived from “diligere”

  • diligence
  • diligent
  • diligently
  • diligency
  • indiligence
  • indiligent
  • undiligent
  • overdiligent
  • diligentness
  • nondiligence
  • diligenter
  • diligentia
  • diligens
  • indiligentia
  • indiligens
  • diligentem
  • diligencia
  • diligenciar
  • diligente
  • diligente
  • дилижанс
  • diligenta
  • diligenter
  • diligemment
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