cessare

See also: cessaré

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cessāre.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

Derived terms

Further reading

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

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Latin

Verb

cessāre

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