desino

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ.zi.no/, (traditional) /ˈde.zi.no/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛzino, (traditional) -ezino
• Hyphenation: dè‧si‧no, (traditional) dé‧si‧no

desino

1. first-person singular present indicative of desinare

• Sidone, esondi, sedino

From dē- +‎ sinō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdeː.sɪ.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdɛː.s̬i.no]

dēsinō (present infinitive dēsinere, perfect active dēsiī, supine dēsitum); third conjugation

1. to leave off, give over, give up

   Synonyms: relinquō, dēserō, omittō, dēdō, concēdō, dēcēdō, dēstituō, dēficiō, cēdō, linquō, addīcō, neglegō, remittō, permittō, tribuō

2. to cease, desist, stop

   Synonyms: dēsistō, absistō, cessō, omittō, remittō, mittō, quiēscō

   Antonyms: incipiō, exōrdior, ōrdior, īnfit

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 972–973:

     DĀVUS: Āh, dēsine! / Solus est quem dīligant dī.

     DAVUS: Oh, stop [it]! He is the only one whom the gods love.

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.453–454:

     tū dēsine crēdere ventīs: perdidit illīus temporis aura fidem

     You should cease to trust the winds: at that season, the breeze has lost trustworthiness.
     Or, Don't trust the winds: the breeze is unreliable that time of year.
     (Ovid warns his readers about the weather in February.)

3. to stop, end, close, make an end

On several places we find the syncope form "dēsi, dēsis, dēsit..." in place of "dēsii, dēsiis, dēsiit...".

1. Non enim excisa desit, sed fatigata... (Seneca, Epistolae Morales, VI, 56, 9)

   He stopped, not knocked down but tired...

• dēsinentia (Mediaeval)

• “desino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “desino”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “desino”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.