discerno
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discerno
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Etymology edit
dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + cernō (“see, discern”)
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /disˈker.noː/, [d̪ɪs̠ˈkɛrnoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /diʃˈʃer.no/, [d̪iʃˈʃɛrno]
Verb edit
discernō (present infinitive discernere, perfect active discrēvī, supine discrētum); third conjugation
- to separate, set apart, divide, part
- (figurative, based upon a thing's qualities) to distinguish between, discern
- (figuratively) to determine, settle
- (figuratively) to except, omit
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- Catalan: discernir
- English: discern
- French: discerner
- Galician: discernir
- Italian: discernere
- Piedmontese: disserne
- Portuguese: discernir
- Sicilian: discèrniri
- Spanish: discernir
- Romanian: discerne
References edit
- “discerno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “discerno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- discerno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette