recuso
See also: recusó
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /reˈkuː.soː/, [rɛˈkuːs̠oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈku.so/, [reˈkuːs̬o]
Verb
recūsō (present infinitive recūsāre, perfect active recūsāvī, supine recūsātum); first conjugation
- to refuse, decline, reject
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.44:
- Si iterum experiri velint, se iterum paratum esse decertare; si pace uti velint, iniquum esse de stipendio recusare, quod sua voluntate ad id tempus pependerint.
- If they chose to make a second trial, he was ready to encounter them again; but if they chose to enjoy peace, it was unfair to refuse the tribute, which of their own free-will they had paid up to that time.
- Si iterum experiri velint, se iterum paratum esse decertare; si pace uti velint, iniquum esse de stipendio recusare, quod sua voluntate ad id tempus pependerint.
- (law) to protest, object
Conjugation
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “recuso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “recuso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- recuso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to avoid no risk in order to..: nullum periculum recusare pro
- I will refuse you nothing: nihil tibi a me postulanti recusabo
- to avoid no risk in order to..: nullum periculum recusare pro
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: re‧cu‧so
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈkuso/ [reˈku.so]
- Rhymes: -uso
- Syllabification: re‧cu‧so
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