- DYGÐ
- f.1) probity, faithfulness: lið ok dygð (help and faithful service) góðs drengs; trúa em til dygðar um et, to trust in one’s integrity;2) virtue, virtuous deed (fyirir þvílíkar dygðir veitti gúð honum sína miskunn);3) help (biðið hann veita yðr dygð);4) virtue, good quality (þat tré hefir fjórar dygðir, þá fyrstu, at þat kann eigi fúna).* * *f. [A. S. duguð = doughtiness, valour; O. H. G. tugad; Germ. tugend; Swed. dygd; Dan. dyd]α. virtue, probity, only used in a moral metaph. sense; the original sense (from duga, q. v.) of valour, strength, which prevails in the A. S., is quite obsolete; trúa e-m til dygðar um e-t, to trwst in one’s integrity, Fs. 121 (of a judge); fyrir sakir þinnar dygðar, probity, Fms. vi. 58; lið ok d. (help and faithful service) góðs drengs, 227; fyrir sína dygð, for his faithfulness, vii. 158.β. in mod. eccl. writers the Lat. virtus is rendered by dygð, Vídal., Pass., etc.; ó-dygð, wickedness,γ. virtue, of an inanimate thing, of a tree, Stj. 256.COMPDS: dygðarlauss, dygðarleysi, dygðarmaðr, dygðarverk.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.