verb/dis.tɛ̃.ɡe/
to distinguish; to make out (with one of the senses, often visually); to be distinguished
“Il n'existe pas de critère strictement linguistique permettant de distinguer une langue d'un dialecte.” — There is no strictly linguistic criterion capable of distinguishing a language from a dialect.
From Middle French distinguer, a 14th-century borrowing from Latin distinguere.