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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diʃˈʃɛr.no/
- Rhymes: -ɛrno
- Hyphenation: di‧scèr‧no
Verb
discerno
- first-person singular present indicative of discernere
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Latin
Etymology
dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + cernō (“see, discern”)
Pronunciation
Verb
discernō (present infinitive discernere, perfect active discrēvī, supine discrētum); third conjugation
- to separate, set apart, divide, part
- (figurative, based upon a thing's qualities) to distinguish between, discern
- (figuratively) to determine, settle
- (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.