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 dē- (down) +‎ clīnō (to bend, to 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