discerno
Italian
Verb
discerno
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
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dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + cernō (“see, discern”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /disˈker.noː/, [d̪ɪs̠ˈkɛrnoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /diʃˈʃer.no/, [d̪iʃˈʃɛrno]
Verb
discernō (present infinitive discernere, perfect active discrēvī, supine discrētum); third conjugation
- I separate, set apart, divide, part.
- (figurative, based upon a thing's qualities) I distinguish between, discern.
- (figuratively) I determine, settle.
- (figuratively) I except, omit
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Descendants
- Italian: discernere
- Portuguese: discernir
References
- “discerno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “discerno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- discerno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Verb
discerno