distinguo

English

Etymology

From Latin distinguo (“I distinguish”).

Noun

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.

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

distinguo m (plural distinguos)

1. distinguo

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

distinguo

1. first-person singular present indicative of distinguere

Anagrams

• disgiunto

Latin

Etymology

From dis- +‎ stinguō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /disˈtin.ɡʷoː/, [d̪ɪs̠ˈt̪ɪŋɡʷoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /disˈtin.ɡwo/, [d̪isˈt̪iŋɡwo]

Verb

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

Conjugation

   Conjugation of distinguō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	distinguō		distinguis		distinguit		distinguimus		distinguitis		distinguunt
	imperfect	distinguēbam		distinguēbās		distinguēbat		distinguēbāmus		distinguēbātis		distinguēbant
	future	distinguam		distinguēs		distinguet		distinguēmus		distinguētis		distinguent
	perfect	distīnxī		distīnxistī		distīnxit		distīnximus		distīnxistis		distīnxērunt, distīnxēre
	pluperfect	distīnxeram		distīnxerās		distīnxerat		distīnxerāmus		distīnxerātis		distīnxerant
	future perfect	distīnxerō		distīnxeris		distīnxerit		distīnxerimus		distīnxeritis		distīnxerint
passive	present	distinguor		distingueris, distinguere		distinguitur		distinguimur		distinguiminī		distinguuntur
	imperfect	distinguēbar		distinguēbāris, distinguēbāre		distinguēbātur		distinguēbāmur		distinguēbāminī		distinguēbantur
	future	distinguar		distinguēris, distinguēre		distinguētur		distinguēmur		distinguēminī		distinguentur
	perfect	distīnctus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	distīnctus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	distīnctus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	distinguam		distinguās		distinguat		distinguāmus		distinguātis		distinguant
	imperfect	distinguerem		distinguerēs		distingueret		distinguerēmus		distinguerētis		distinguerent
	perfect	distīnxerim		distīnxerīs		distīnxerit		distīnxerīmus		distīnxerītis		distīnxerint
	pluperfect	distīnxissem		distīnxissēs		distīnxisset		distīnxissēmus		distīnxissētis		distīnxissent
passive	present	distinguar		distinguāris, distinguāre		distinguātur		distinguāmur		distinguāminī		distinguantur
	imperfect	distinguerer		distinguerēris, distinguerēre		distinguerētur		distinguerēmur		distinguerēminī		distinguerentur
	perfect	distīnctus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	distīnctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		distingue		—		—		distinguite		—
	future	—		distinguitō		distinguitō		—		distinguitōte		distinguuntō
passive	present	—		distinguere		—		—		distinguiminī		—
	future	—		distinguitor		distinguitor		—		—		distinguuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		distinguere			distinguī			distinguēns			—
future		distīnctūrum esse			distīnctum īrī			distīnctūrus			distinguendus
perfect		distīnxisse			distīnctum esse			—			distīnctus
future perfect		—			distīnctum fore			—			—
perfect potential		distīnctūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		distinguendī		distinguendō		distinguendum		distinguendō		distīnctum		distīnctū

Descendants

• Catalan: distingir
• Dalmatian: distenguar
• English: distinguish
• French: distinguer
• Galician: distinguir
• Italian: distinguere
• Norman: distîndgi
• Occitan: distinguir
• Piedmontese: distingue
• Portuguese: distinguir
• Romanian: destinge, distinge
• Spanish: distinguir

References

• “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