dissimulo

dissimulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of dissimular

• IPA^(key): /disˈsi.mu.lo/
• Rhymes: -imulo
• Hyphenation: dis‧sì‧mu‧lo

dissimulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of dissimulare

From dissimilis (“unlike”) +‎ -ō, with i changed to u before a thick l.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /disˈsi.mu.loː/, [d̪ɪs̠ˈs̠ɪmʊɫ̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /disˈsi.mu.lo/, [d̪isˈsiːmulo]

dissimulō (present infinitive dissimulāre, perfect active dissimulāvī, supine dissimulātum); first conjugation

1. to conceal, hide, or dissimulate a state of mind

   Synonyms: vēlō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, tegō, abdō, abscondō, cooperiō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, opprimō, mergō

   Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō, patefaciō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.516:

     Dissimulant et nūbe cavā speculantur amictī

     They hide their feelings and, veiled by the hollow cloud, they watch.
     (Aeneas and Achates are hiding themselves within a divine cloud of mist, yet also concealing their emotions upon seeing fellow Trojans thought lost at sea.)

2. to dissemble or disguise, pretend

   Synonyms: fingō, simulō, mentior, affectō, ēmentior, praetendō

3. to disregard, neglect, or ignore

   Synonyms: dēserō, relinquō, omittō, dēdō, concēdō, dēcēdō, dēstituō, dēficiō, oblīvīscor, cēdō, trādō, addīcō, praetereō, neglegō, pōnō, reddō, remittō, permittō, tribuō

• “dissimulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dissimulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dissimulo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to pretend not to be ill: dissimulare morbum
    

dissimulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of dissimular