desinent

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin desinens, present participle of desinere, desitum (“to leave off, cease”); de- + sinere (“to let, allow”).

Adjective

desinent (comparative more desinent, superlative most desinent)

1. (obsolete) Ending; forming an end; lowermost.
   • (Can we date this quote by Ben Jonson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     In front of this sea were placed six tritons, in moving and sprightly actions, their upper parts human, save that their hairs were blue, as partaking of the sea-colour: their desinent parts fish, mounted above their heads, and all varied in disposition.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “desinent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• dentines, tennised

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dēsinent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dēsinō