agito

Borrowed from Latin agitō (“I chase”).

• Hyphenation: ag‧i‧to

agito (plural agitos)

1. An asymmetric crescent that is a symbol of the Paralympic movement.

• Tagoi, Tioga

agito

1. first-person singular present indicative of agitar

agito (accusative singular agiton, plural agitoj, accusative plural agitojn)

1. singular past nominal passive participle of agi

agito

1. singular nominal past passive participle of agar

• IPA^(key): /aˈd͡ʒi.to/
• Rhymes: -ito
• Hyphenation: a‧gì‧to

agito (feminine agita, masculine plural agiti, feminine plural agite)

1. past participle of agire

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒi.to/
• Rhymes: -adʒito
• Hyphenation: à‧gi‧to

agito

1. first-person singular present indicative of agitare

• Gaito

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɡɪ.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.d͡ʒi.t̪o]

From agō (“do, act, make”) +‎ -itō (frequentative suffix). See actus.

agitō (present infinitive agitāre, perfect active agitāvī, supine agitātum); first conjugation

1. to act, behave, do, or make persistently or unremittingly
2. to put something in motion, drive, impel; drive by rowing, row about; shake, throb
3. to brandish, wield
4. (of cattle) to drive, conduct; tend, control
5. (of animals) to hunt, chase, pursue
6. to drive to and fro, toss about, agitate, disturb, churn
   • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, The Heroines 7:

     mare, quale vides agitāri nunc quoque ventis.

     The sea, the sort you now see, also churned up by the winds.

7. to rouse or stir up, excite, move, urge, drive or impel someone to something, insist on
8. to disturb, disquiet, provoke, agitate, vex, trouble, torment

   Synonyms: fatīgō, turbō, perturbō, sollicitō, angō, concitō, percieō, concieō, cieō, disturbō, īnfestō, irrītō, stimulō, lacessō, ēvertō, peragō, moveō, occīdō, agō, versō, ūrō

   Antonym: cōnsōlor

   • 9 CE, Ovid, The Ibis 159:

     Hīs vīvus Furiīs agitābere, mortuus īsdem.

     You'll be tormented by these Furies while alive, and when dead by the same.

9. to reprove, assail, blame, decry, scoff, deride, insult, mock
10. to be engaged in, do, accomplish, have, hold, keep; celebrate; practise, exercise
11. (of time) to pass, spend
12. to live, dwell, abide, sojourn
13. (of the mind) to drive at something in the mind; turn over, study, weigh, consider, meditate upon
14. (of the mind) to be occupied with, devise, contrive, plot, design, intend
15. to deliberate upon, confer about, discuss, debate, investigate
16. (with sat (enough) and genitive) to have enough to do, have trouble with, to be fully engaged in

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• agō

agitō

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of agō

• “agito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “agito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• agito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
    
  • to make a horse prance: agitare equum
    
  • to be affected by some external impulse, by external impressions: pulsu externo, adventicio agitari
    
  • to think over, consider a thing: agitare (in) mente or (in) animo aliquid
    
  • to be tormented by remorse: (mens scelerum furiis agitatur)
    
  • the Furies harass and torment some one: Furiae agitant et vexant aliquem
    

Deverbal from agitar.

agito m (plural agitos)

1. (colloquial) a party with lively dancing
2. agitation (the state of being agitated)

   Synonym: agitação

agito

1. first-person singular present indicative of agitar

• IPA^(key): /aˈxito/ [aˈxi.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: a‧gi‧to
• Homophone: ajito

agito

1. first-person singular present indicative of agitar