digero

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-

Proto-Italic *dis-

Latin dis-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Italic *gezō

Latin gerere

Latin dīgerō

From dis- + gerere.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.ɡɛ.roː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.d͡ʒe.ro]

Verb

dīgerō (present infinitive dīgerere, perfect active dīgessī, supine dīgestum); third conjugation

to distribute, disseminate
to spread, branch out, disperse
to arrange, organize, classify; digest
- 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, De civitate Dei 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 […]

Conjugation

Conjugation of dīgerō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	dīgerō	dīgeris		dīgerit	dīgerimus	dīgeritis		dīgerunt
	imperfect	dīgerēbam	dīgerēbās		dīgerēbat	dīgerēbāmus	dīgerēbātis		dīgerēbant
	future	dīgeram	dīgerēs		dīgeret	dīgerēmus	dīgerētis		dīgerent
	perfect	dīgessī	dīgessistī		dīgessit	dīgessimus	dīgessistis		dīgessērunt, dīgessēre
	pluperfect	dīgesseram	dīgesserās		dīgesserat	dīgesserāmus	dīgesserātis		dīgesserant
	future perfect	dīgesserō	dīgesseris		dīgesserit	dīgesserimus	dīgesseritis		dīgesserint
passive	present	dīgeror	dīgereris, dīgerere		dīgeritur	dīgerimur	dīgeriminī		dīgeruntur
	imperfect	dīgerēbar	dīgerēbāris, dīgerēbāre		dīgerēbātur	dīgerēbāmur	dīgerēbāminī		dīgerēbantur
	future	dīgerar	dīgerēris, dīgerēre		dīgerētur	dīgerēmur	dīgerēminī		dīgerentur
	perfect	dīgestus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	dīgestus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	dīgestus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	dīgeram	dīgerās		dīgerat	dīgerāmus	dīgerātis		dīgerant
	imperfect	dīgererem	dīgererēs		dīgereret	dīgererēmus	dīgererētis		dīgererent
	perfect	dīgesserim	dīgesserīs		dīgesserit	dīgesserīmus	dīgesserītis		dīgesserint
	pluperfect	dīgessissem	dīgessissēs		dīgessisset	dīgessissēmus	dīgessissētis		dīgessissent
passive	present	dīgerar	dīgerāris, dīgerāre		dīgerātur	dīgerāmur	dīgerāminī		dīgerantur
	imperfect	dīgererer	dīgererēris, dīgererēre		dīgererētur	dīgererēmur	dīgererēminī		dīgererentur
	perfect	dīgestus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	dīgestus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	dīgere		—	—	dīgerite		—
active	future	—	dīgeritō		dīgeritō	—	dīgeritōte		dīgeruntō
passive	present	—	dīgerere		—	—	dīgeriminī		—
passive	future	—	dīgeritor		dīgeritor	—	—		dīgeruntor
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		dīgerere		dīgerī		dīgerēns		—
future		dīgestūrum esse		dīgestum īrī		dīgestūrus		dīgerendus, dīgerundus
perfect		dīgessisse		dīgestum esse		—		dīgestus
future perfect		—		dīgestum fore		—		—
perfect potential		dīgestūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		dīgerendī	dīgerendō		dīgerendum	dīgerendō	dīgestum		dīgestū

Descendants

→ Asturian: dixerir
→ Catalan: digerir
→ English: digest
→ Galician: dixerir
→ French: digérer (learned)
→ Italian: digerire
→ Portuguese: digerir
→ Spanish: digerir

References

“digero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“digero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“digero”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to arrange and divide the subject-matter: res componere ac digerere
- to arrange in alphabetical order: ad litteram or litterarum ordine digerere
digero in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016