English

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.

Italian

Verb

distinguo

1. first-person singular indicative present of distinguere

Anagrams

• disgiunto

Latin

Etymology

From dis- +‎ stinguō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /disˈtin.ɡʷoː/, [dɪsˈtɪŋ.ɡʷoː]

Verb

distinguō ‎(present infinitive distinguere, perfect active distinxī, supine distinctum); third conjugation

1. I distinguish, separate, divide or part
   • 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. I adorn or decorate

Inflection

Descendants

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “distinguo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to furnish a book with notes, additional extracts, marks of punctuation: librum annotare, interpolare, distinguere