See also: cessaré

Italian

edit

Etymology

edit

From Latin cessāre.

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃesˈsa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ces‧sà‧re

Verb

edit

cessàre (first-person singular present cèsso, first-person singular past historic cessài, past participle cessàto, auxiliary (intransitive in the absolute meaning "to stop, to cease") èssere or (other meanings) avére)

  1. (intransitive) to stop, to finish, to cease [auxiliary essere]
    Synonyms: smettere, finire, terminare
    Antonym: continuare
  2. (intransitive) to abate, to die down, to subside [auxiliary essere]
    Synonym: calmarsi
  3. (intransitive) to stop doing, to cease doing [with da (+ object or infinitive); or with di (+ infinitive)] [auxiliary avere]
    Antonyms: proseguire, continuare
    ha cessato di viverehe stopped living, he died
    non ha cessato dal lavorohe didn't cease his work
  4. (intransitive, commerce) to shut down, to fold (of a company) [auxiliary avere]
  5. (euphemistic) to die, to pass away
  6. (transitive) to stop, to cease
    Synonym: fermare

Conjugation

edit

Derived terms

edit
edit

Further reading

edit
  • cessare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • cessare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Anagrams

edit

Latin

edit

Verb

edit

cessāre

  1. inflection of cessō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative