declino

See also: declinó and declinò

Catalan

Verb

declino

  1. first-person singular present indicative of declinar

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deˈkli.no/
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Hyphenation: de‧clì‧no

Etymology 1

Noun

declino m (plural declini)

  1. decline

Etymology 2

Verb

declino

  1. first-person singular present indicative of declinare

Latin

Etymology

From de- (down) +‎ clīnō (I bend, I incline).

Pronunciation

Verb

dēclīnō (present infinitive dēclīnāre, perfect active dēclīnāvī, supine dēclīnātum); first conjugation

  1. to bend, deviate, turn aside/away, deflect
    Synonyms: arceō, prōpulsō, dīvertō, dēflectō, āvertō, āspernor, dēmoveō, flectō, trānsvertō
  2. (grammar) to inflect, decline
  3. to avoid
    Synonyms: ēvādō, ēlūdō, dētrectō, vītō, ēvītō, refugiō, exeō, āversor, abstineō, parcō, fugiō
    Antonyms: dēstinō, intendō, tendō, petō, quaerō, affectō, studeō, spectō, circumspiciō
  4. to digress

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: declinar
  • Danish: deklinere
  • English: decline
  • French: décliner
  • Italian: declinare
  • Norman: dêclyinner (Jersey)
  • Portuguese: declinar
  • Romanian: declina
  • Sicilian: dichinari, diclinari
  • Spanish: declinar

References

  • declino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • declino”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • declino in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to turn aside from the right way; to deviate: de via declinare, deflectere (also metaphorically)
    • to digress from the point at issue: a proposito aberrare, declinare, deflectere, digredi, egredi

Portuguese

Verb

declino

  1. first-person singular present indicative of declinar

Spanish

Verb

declino

  1. first-person singular present indicative of declinar