dignity的词源

英文词源

dignity: dignity: [13] Dignity comes via Old French dignete from Latin dignitās, a derivative of dignus ‘worthy’. Also from the same source was Latin dignāre (source of English deign and its derivative disdain) and late Latin dignificāre (source of English dignify [15]). Dignus itself probably came from an earlier unrecorded *decnus ‘suitable, fitting’, a derivative of the verb decere, which produced English decent. Other related words in English include condign [15] and indignant [16], while dignitās also produced, via a different line of descent, English dainty.
=> condign, dainty, deign, disdain, indignant
dignity (n.): early 13c., from Old French dignite "dignity, privilege, honor," from Latin dignitatem (nominative dignitas) "worthiness," from dignus "worth (n.), worthy, proper, fitting" from PIE *dek-no-, from root *dek- "to take, accept" (see decent).

来自PIE*deik, 接受，体面，得体，词源同decent, doctor.

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dignity来源于拉丁语词干-dign-(尊严),而-dign-基于以下拉丁语词汇：形容词 dingus (值的,正确的)动词 dignare (认为值得做…),也是英语deign, disdain的词源动词 dignificare,也是英语dignify的词源

词根词缀： -dign-(尊严) + -ity名词词尾

同源词：condign, dainty, deign, disdain, dignify, indignant, indignation