desino
See also: desinò
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɛ.zi.no/, (traditional) /ˈde.zi.no/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɛzino, (traditional) -ezino
- Hyphenation: dè‧si‧no, (traditional) dé‧si‧no
References
- desino in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdeː.si.noː/, [ˈd̪eːs̠ɪnoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈde.si.no/, [ˈd̪ɛːs̬ino]
Verb
dēsinō (present infinitive dēsinere, perfect active dēsiī, supine dēsitum); third conjugation
- to leave off, give over, give up
- to cease, desist
- Synonyms: dēsistō, absistō, cessō, omittō, remittō, mittō, quiēscō
- Antonyms: incipiō, exōrdior, ōrdior, īnfit
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.453–454:
- tū dēsine crēdere ventīs: perdidit illīus temporis aura fidem
- You [should] cease to trust the winds: at that season, the breeze has lost trustworthiness.
Don't trust the winds: the breeze is unreliable that time of year.
(Ovid warns his readers about the weather in February.)
- You [should] cease to trust the winds: at that season, the breeze has lost trustworthiness.
- tū dēsine crēdere ventīs: perdidit illīus temporis aura fidem
- to stop, end, close, make an end
Conjugation
Derived terms
- dēsinentia (Mediaeval)
References
- “desino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “desino”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- desino in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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