diffido
See also: diffidò
Italian
Verb
diffido
- first-person singular present indicative of diffidare
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɪfˈfiː.doː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d̪ifˈfiː.d̪o]
Verb
diffīdō (present infinitive diffīdere, perfect active diffīsus sum); third conjugation, semi-deponent
- to distrust, be diffident, be distrustful (coupled with dative of the thing or person subjected)
- to despair (of)
Usage notes
Used with the dative.
Conjugation
Conjugation of diffīdō (third conjugation, semi-deponent)
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | diffīdō | diffīdis | diffīdit | diffīdimus | diffīditis | diffīdunt | ||||||
| imperfect | diffīdēbam | diffīdēbās | diffīdēbat | diffīdēbāmus | diffīdēbātis | diffīdēbant | |||||||
| future | diffīdam | diffīdēs | diffīdet | diffīdēmus | diffīdētis | diffīdent | |||||||
| perfect | diffīsus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | diffīsus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| future perfect | diffīsus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | diffīdam | diffīdās | diffīdat | diffīdāmus | diffīdātis | diffīdant | ||||||
| imperfect | diffīderem | diffīderēs | diffīderet | diffīderēmus | diffīderētis | diffīderent | |||||||
| perfect | diffīsus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | diffīsus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | diffīde | — | — | diffīdite | — | ||||||
| future | — | diffīditō | diffīditō | — | diffīditōte | diffīduntō | |||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | diffīdere | — | diffīdēns | — | |||||||||
| future | diffīsūrum esse | — | diffīsūrus | diffīdendus, diffīdundus | |||||||||
| perfect | diffīsum esse | — | diffīsus | — | |||||||||
| future perfect | diffīsum fore | — | — | — | |||||||||
| perfect potential | diffīsūrum fuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| diffīdendī | diffīdendō | diffīdendum | diffīdendō | diffīsum | diffīsū | ||||||||
References
- “diffido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “diffido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- diffido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- diffido in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016