discerno

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diʃˈʃɛr.no/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrno
  • Hyphenation: di‧scèr‧no

Verb

discerno

  1. first-person singular present indicative of discernere

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Latin

Etymology

From dis- (asunder, in pieces, apart, in two) +‎ cernō (see, discern).

Pronunciation

Verb

discernō (present infinitive discernere, perfect active discrēvī, supine discrētum); third conjugation

  1. to separate, set apart, divide, part
  2. (figurative, based upon a thing's qualities) to distinguish between, discern
  3. (figuratively) to determine, settle
  4. (figuratively) to except, omit

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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.