insisto

Italian

Verb

insisto

1. first-person singular present indicative of insistere

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Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ sistō (“stand, set, place”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈsis.toː/, [ĩːˈs̠ɪs̠t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈsis.to/, [inˈsist̪o]

Verb

īnsistō (present infinitive īnsistere, perfect active īnstitī); third conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal in the passive

1. (transitive) I set foot, stand, tread or press on or upon something.
2. (transitive, with viam or iter) I enter or embark on, pursue (a way, path or journey).
3. (with dative) I follow, pursue, press on.
4. (intransitive) I halt, pause, stop, stand still; pause in thought, dwell upon, hesitate, doubt.
5. (figuratively, with dative) I press upon, urge.
6. (figuratively, with dative or accusative) I set about, devote or apply myself to, set to work (on).
7. (figuratively, with dative or infinitive) I persevere, continue, persist in

Conjugation

Conjugation of īnsistō (third conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal in passive)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	īnsistō	īnsistis	īnsistit	īnsistimus	īnsistitis	īnsistunt
	imperfect	īnsistēbam	īnsistēbās	īnsistēbat	īnsistēbāmus	īnsistēbātis	īnsistēbant
	future	īnsistam	īnsistēs	īnsistet	īnsistēmus	īnsistētis	īnsistent
	perfect	īnstitī	īnstitistī	īnstitit	īnstitimus	īnstitistis	īnstitērunt, īnstitēre
	pluperfect	īnstiteram	īnstiterās	īnstiterat	īnstiterāmus	īnstiterātis	īnstiterant
	future perfect	īnstiterō	īnstiteris	īnstiterit	īnstiterimus	īnstiteritis	īnstiterint
passive	present	—	—	īnsistitur	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	īnsistēbātur	—	—	—
	future	—	—	īnsistētur	—	—	—
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	īnsistam	īnsistās	īnsistat	īnsistāmus	īnsistātis	īnsistant
	imperfect	īnsisterem	īnsisterēs	īnsisteret	īnsisterēmus	īnsisterētis	īnsisterent
	perfect	īnstiterim	īnstiterīs	īnstiterit	īnstiterīmus	īnstiterītis	īnstiterint
	pluperfect	īnstitissem	īnstitissēs	īnstitisset	īnstitissēmus	īnstitissētis	īnstitissent
passive	present	—	—	īnsistātur	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	īnsisterētur	—	—	—
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	īnsiste	—	—	īnsistite	—
	future	—	īnsistitō	īnsistitō	—	īnsistitōte	īnsistuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		īnsistere	īnstitisse	—	īnsistī	—	—
participles		īnsistēns	—	—	—	—	īnsistendum, īnsistundum
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		īnsistendī	īnsistendō	īnsistendum	īnsistendō	—	—

Related terms

• absistō
• assistō
• circumsistō
• cōnsistō
• dēsistō
• exsistō

• obsistō
• persistō
• resistō
• sistō
• subsistō

Descendants

• Catalan: insistir
• English: insist
• French: insister

• Italian: insistere
• Portuguese: insistir
• Spanish: insistir
• Romanian: insista

See also

• īnstō

References

• “insisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “insisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• insisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to follow in any one's steps: vestigiis alicuius insistere, ingredi (also metaph.)
    

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Portuguese

Verb

insisto

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Spanish

Verb

insisto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of insistir.