desisto

See also: DeSisto and De Sisto

Italian

Verb

desisto

1. first-person singular present indicative of desistere

Anagrams

• disseto, dissetò, disteso

Latin

Etymology

From dē- +‎ sistō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈsis.toː/, [d̪eːˈs̠ɪs̠t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈsis.to/, [d̪eˈs̬ist̪o]

Verb

dēsistō (present infinitive dēsistere, perfect active dēstitī, supine dēstitum); third conjugation, no passive

1. to stand apart
2. to cease, desist from (usually coupled with ablative)

   Synonyms: subsistō, sistō, cessō, remittō, dēsinō, conticēscō, quiēscō, trānseō

   Antonyms: coepiō, incohō, incipiō

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.26:

     Consilio destiterunt

     Desisted from the plan

Conjugation

Conjugation of dēsistō (third conjugation, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	dēsistō	dēsistis	dēsistit	dēsistimus	dēsistitis	dēsistunt
	imperfect	dēsistēbam	dēsistēbās	dēsistēbat	dēsistēbāmus	dēsistēbātis	dēsistēbant
	future	dēsistam	dēsistēs	dēsistet	dēsistēmus	dēsistētis	dēsistent
	perfect	dēstitī	dēstitistī	dēstitit	dēstitimus	dēstitistis	dēstitērunt, dēstitēre
	pluperfect	dēstiteram	dēstiterās	dēstiterat	dēstiterāmus	dēstiterātis	dēstiterant
	future perfect	dēstiterō	dēstiteris	dēstiterit	dēstiterimus	dēstiteritis	dēstiterint
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	dēsistam	dēsistās	dēsistat	dēsistāmus	dēsistātis	dēsistant
	imperfect	dēsisterem	dēsisterēs	dēsisteret	dēsisterēmus	dēsisterētis	dēsisterent
	perfect	dēstiterim	dēstiterīs	dēstiterit	dēstiterīmus	dēstiterītis	dēstiterint
	pluperfect	dēstitissem	dēstitissēs	dēstitisset	dēstitissēmus	dēstitissētis	dēstitissent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	dēsiste	—	—	dēsistite	—
	future	—	dēsistitō	dēsistitō	—	dēsistitōte	dēsistuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		dēsistere	dēstitisse	dēstitūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		dēsistēns	—	dēstitūrus	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		dēsistendī	dēsistendō	dēsistendum	dēsistendō	dēstitum	dēstitū

Descendants

• Catalan: desistir
• Middle French: desister
  • → English: desist
  • French: désister
• Galician: desistir
• Italian: desistere
• Occitan: desistir
• Portuguese: desistir
• Sicilian: disìstiri
• Spanish: desistir

References

• “desisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “desisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• desisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give up one's opinion: (de) sententia desistere
    
  • to give up a project, an intention: consilio desistere
    
  • to give up one's project: incepto or conatu desistere
    

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /deˈzis.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /deˈzis.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /deˈziʃ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /deˈzis.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨˈziʃ.tu/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -istu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃtu
• Hyphenation: de‧sis‧to

Verb

desisto

1. first-person singular present indicative of desistir

Spanish

Verb

desisto

1. first-person singular present indicative of desistir