dīlĭgens
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- P. a., diligent, careful
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
quī cum cūrā labōrat; servus dīligēns nummōs bene numerat.dīligēns -entis — in Mille Verba, Aula Rēgia
dīlĭgens, entis, Part. and
I. P. a., diligent, careful, etc., v. diligo fin.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
dīligēns entis, adj. with comp. and sup.
P. of diligo, industrious, careful, assiduous, attentive, diligent, accurate, scrupulous, faithful : diligentissimi aratores: homo, thrifty : servi: in re hereditariā: in ostentis animadvertendis: diligentior ad classem ornandum: omnis offici diligentissimus: veritatis, N.: equis adsignandis.—Of things, laborious, faithful : relatio consulis: scriptura conquisitio, Ta.