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(Anglès)

(countable, uncountable) The state of being dignified or worthy of esteem: elevation of mind or character.
(countable, uncountable) Decorum, formality, stateliness.
(countable, uncountable) High office, rank, or station.
(countable, uncountable) One holding high rank; a dignitary.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.

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/ˈdɪɡnɪti/

Heretat de anglès mitjà

dignyte

In summary

Inherited from Middle English dignyte, from Old French dignité, from Latin dignitās (“worthiness, merit, dignity, grandeur, authority, rank, office”), from dignus (“worthy, appropriate”), from Proto-Italic *degnos, from Proto-Indo-European *dḱ-nos, from *deḱ- (“to take”). See also decus (“honor, esteem”) and decet (“it is fitting”). Cognate to deign. Doublet of dainty. In this sense, displaced native Old English weorþsċipe, which became Modern English worship.