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		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		distinguere	distīnxisse	distīnctūrum esse	distinguī	distīnctum esse	distīnctum īrī
participles		distinguēns	—	distīnctūrus	—	distīnctus	distinguendus
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