cessare

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin cessāre.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃesˈsa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ces‧sà‧re

Verb

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cessàre (first-person singular present cèsso, first-person singular past historic cessài, past participle cessàto, auxiliary (intransitive in the absolute meaning "to stop, to cease") èssere or (other meanings) avére)

  1. (intransitive) to stop, to finish, to cease [auxiliary essere]
    Synonyms: smettere, finire, terminare
    Antonym: continuare
  2. (intransitive) to abate, to die down, to subside [auxiliary essere]
    Synonym: calmarsi
  3. (intransitive) to stop doing, to cease doing [with da (+ object or infinitive); or with di (+ infinitive)] [auxiliary avere]
    Antonyms: proseguire, continuare
    ha cessato di viverehe stopped living, he died
    non ha cessato dal lavorohe didn't cease his work
  4. (intransitive, commerce) to shut down, to fold (of a company) [auxiliary avere]
  5. (euphemistic) to die, to pass away
  6. (transitive) to stop, to cease
    Synonym: fermare

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • cessare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • cessare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Anagrams

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Latin

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Verb

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cessāre

  1. inflection of cessō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative