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Catalan
Verb
declino
- first-person singular present indicative of declinar
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deˈkli.no/
- Rhymes: -ino
- Hyphenation: de‧clì‧no
Etymology 1
Noun
declino m (plural declini)
- decline
Etymology 2
Verb
declino
- first-person singular present indicative of declinare
Latin
Etymology
From de- (“down”) + clīnō (“I bend, I incline”).
Pronunciation
Verb
dēclīnō (present infinitive dēclīnāre, perfect active dēclīnāvī, supine dēclīnātum); first conjugation
- to bend, deviate, turn aside/away, deflect
- Synonyms: arceō, prōpulsō, dīvertō, dēflectō, āvertō, āspernor, dēmoveō, flectō, trānsvertō
- (grammar) to inflect, decline
- to avoid
- Synonyms: ēvādō, ēlūdō, dētrectō, vītō, ēvītō, refugiō, exeō, āversor, abstineō, parcō, fugiō
- Antonyms: dēstinō, intendō, tendō, petō, quaerō, affectō, studeō, spectō, circumspiciō
- to digress
Conjugation
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Descendants
References
- “declino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “declino”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- declino in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to turn aside from the right way; to deviate: de via declinare, deflectere (also metaphorically)
- to digress from the point at issue: a proposito aberrare, declinare, deflectere, digredi, egredi
Portuguese
Verb
declino
- first-person singular present indicative of declinar
Spanish
Verb
declino
- first-person singular present indicative of declinar