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diligentiam

diligentiam is a Latin form of diligentia, meaning “diligence, care, attentiveness”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 135 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.20.1: … pulso interfectus esset atque unde L. Manlius proconsul impedimentis amissis profugisset, non mediocrem sibi diligentiam adhibendam intellegebat.

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 9.35.2: Diligentiam tuam in retractandis operibus valde probo. Est tamen aliquis modus, primum quod nimia cura deterit magis quam emendat, deinde quod nos a recentioribus revocat simulque nec absolvit priora et incohare posteriora non patitur. Vale.

All forms of diligentia (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.