desino Latin · revision 8401

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la sinō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈdeː.sɪ.noː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈdɛː.s̬i.no]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēsinō''' (present infinitive dēsinere, perfect active dēsiī, supine dēsitum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[dē-]] and [[sinō]] “to let, leave”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨sinō⟩ to Proto-Italic ⟨*sine/o-⟩ “to put in place”, and lists the disputed root reconstructions.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, with an infinitive, and Terence.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to leave off, stop, finish, as in Terence, and with an infinitive to cease doing something, as in Plautus.^(OLD 2012) With the accusative it meant to give up an activity, and Cicero has ''artem dēsinere'' “to give up one's art”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Pliny the Elder it meant to end in space, “to end in a point”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it with an infinitive.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of stopping.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of ending in space.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To leave off, [[m|en|cease]], [[m|en|stop]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # (with infinitive) To cease doing.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To give up.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To end (in).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[desitus]]

+ * [[indesinens]]

+ * [[perdēsinō]]

+ * [[dēsinentia]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sinō]]

+ * [[dēsistō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}