cessare

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See also: cessaré

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cessāre.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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
    Synonyms: smettere, finire, terminare
    Antonym: continuare
  2. (intransitive) to abate, to die down, to subside
    Synonym: calmarsi
  3. (intransitive) to stop doing, to cease doing
    Antonyms: proseguire, continuare
    ha cessato di vivere ― he stopped living, he died
    non ha cessato dal lavoro ― he didn't cease his work
  4. (intransitive, commerce) to shut down, to fold (of a company)
  5. (euphemistic) to die, to pass away
  6. (transitive) to stop, to cease
    Synonym: fermare

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cessàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive cessàre
auxiliary verb èssere1, avére2 gerund cessàndo
present participle cessànte past participle cessàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present cèsso cèssi cèssa cessiàmo cessàte cèssano
imperfect cessàvo cessàvi cessàva cessavàmo cessavàte cessàvano
past historic cessài cessàsti cessò cessàmmo cessàste cessàrono
future cesserò cesserài cesserà cesserémo cesseréte cesserànno
conditional cesserèi cesserésti cesserèbbe, cesserébbe cesserémmo cesseréste cesserèbbero, cesserébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present cèssi cèssi cèssi cessiàmo cessiàte cèssino
imperfect cessàssi cessàssi cessàsse cessàssimo cessàste cessàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
cèssa cèssi cessiàmo cessàte cèssino
negative imperative non cessàre non cèssi non cessiàmo non cessàte non cèssino

1Intransitive in the absolute meaning "to stop, to cease".
2Other meanings.

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

cessāre

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