desisto

See also: DeSisto and De Sisto

Italian

Verb

desisto

first-person singular present indicative of desistere

Anagrams

disseto, dissetò, disteso

Latin

Etymology

From dē- +‎ sistō.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈsɪs.toː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪eˈs̬is.t̪o]

Verb

dēsistō (present infinitive dēsistere, perfect active dēstitī, supine dēstitum); third conjugation, no passive

to stand apart
to cease, desist from (usually coupled with ablative)
Synonyms: subsistō, sistō, cessō, remittō, dēsinō, conticēscō, quiēscō, trānseō

Antonyms: coepiō, incohō, incipiō
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.26:
  Consilio destiterunt
  Desisted from the plan

Conjugation

Conjugation of dēsistō (third conjugation, no passive)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	dēsistō	dēsistis		dēsistit	dēsistimus	dēsistitis		dēsistunt
	imperfect	dēsistēbam	dēsistēbās		dēsistēbat	dēsistēbāmus	dēsistēbātis		dēsistēbant
	future	dēsistam	dēsistēs		dēsistet	dēsistēmus	dēsistētis		dēsistent
	perfect	dēstitī	dēstitistī		dēstitit	dēstitimus	dēstitistis		dēstitērunt, dēstitēre
	pluperfect	dēstiteram	dēstiterās		dēstiterat	dēstiterāmus	dēstiterātis		dēstiterant
	future perfect	dēstiterō	dēstiteris		dēstiterit	dēstiterimus	dēstiteritis		dēstiterint
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	dēsistam	dēsistās		dēsistat	dēsistāmus	dēsistātis		dēsistant
	imperfect	dēsisterem	dēsisterēs		dēsisteret	dēsisterēmus	dēsisterētis		dēsisterent
	perfect	dēstiterim	dēstiterīs		dēstiterit	dēstiterīmus	dēstiterītis		dēstiterint
	pluperfect	dēstitissem	dēstitissēs		dēstitisset	dēstitissēmus	dēstitissētis		dēstitissent
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	dēsiste		—	—	dēsistite		—
active	future	—	dēsistitō		dēsistitō	—	dēsistitōte		dēsistuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		dēsistere		—		dēsistēns		—
future		dēstitūrum esse		—		dēstitūrus		—
perfect		dēstitisse		—		—		—
perfect potential		dēstitūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		dēsistendī	dēsistendō		dēsistendum	dēsistendō	dēstitum		dēstitū

Descendants

Catalan: desistir
Middle French: desister
- → English: desist
- French: désister
Galician: desistir
Italian: desistere
Occitan: desistir
Portuguese: desistir
Sicilian: disìstiri
Spanish: desistir

References

“desisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“desisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
desisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to give up one's opinion: (de) sententia desistere
- to give up a project, an intention: consilio desistere
- to give up one's project: incepto or conatu desistere

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /deˈzis.tu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /deˈziʃ.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /deˈzis.to/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨˈziʃ.tu/

Rhymes: (Brazil) -istu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃtu
Hyphenation: de‧sis‧to

Verb

desisto

first-person singular present indicative of desistir

Spanish

Verb

desisto

first-person singular present indicative of desistir