instigo
See also: instigó
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NounEdit
instigo (uncountable, accusative instigon)
- instigation, prompting, suggestion ("act of instigating")
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *steigō, maybe from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg-.
Cognate to Latin stilus, Ancient Greek στίζω (stízō, “to mark with a pointed instrument”) and Proto-Germanic *stikaną (“to stick, to stab”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈstiː.ɡoː/, [ĩːˈs̠t̪iːɡoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈsti.ɡo/, [inˈst̪iːɡo]
VerbEdit
īnstīgō (present infinitive īnstīgāre, perfect active īnstīgāvī, supine īnstīgātum); first conjugation
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ReferencesEdit
- “instigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “instigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- instigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “instigate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
PortugueseEdit
VerbEdit
instigo
SpanishEdit
VerbEdit
instigo