adverb
dīligenter
dīligenter (comparative dīligentius, superlative dīligentissimē)
Classical[diː.lɪˈɡɛn.tɛr]Ecclesiastical[di.liˈd͡ʒɛn.ter]
Meaning
- diligently, carefully
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- rationem diligenter conficere
- to keep the accounts (day-book) carefully.
- diligenter attendere (aliquid)
- to attend carefully.
- liber accurate, diligenter scriptus
- a carefully written book.
- re diligenter considerata, perpensa
- after mature deliberation.
- perpolire, limare diligenter librum, opus
- to polish, finish a work with the greatest care.
- studiose (diligenter, enixe, sedulo, maxime) dare operam, ut...
- to take great pains in order to...
dīlĭgenter,
I. adv., attentively, carefully, diligently, earnestly; v. diligo, P. a. fin.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
dīligenter adv. with comp. and sup.
diligens, industriously, attentively, diligently, assiduously : iter facere, Cs.: omnia agere: percipite quae dicam: diligentius (libelli) sunt reconditi: quos diligentissime conservavit, Cs.
Origins
From dīligēns + -ter, from the present active participle of dīligō (“to esteem, to love”).