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Verb
dissimulo
- first-person singular present indicative of dissimular
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /disˈsi.mu.lo/
- Rhymes: -imulo
- Hyphenation: dis‧sì‧mu‧lo
Verb
dissimulo
- first-person singular present indicative of dissimulare
Latin
Etymology
From dissimilis (“unlike”) + -ō, with i changed to u before a thick l.
Pronunciation
Verb
dissimulō (present infinitive dissimulāre, perfect active dissimulāvī, supine dissimulātum); first conjugation
- to conceal, hide, or dissimulate a state of mind
- Synonyms: vēlō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, tegō, abdō, abscondō, cooperiō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, opprimō, mergō
- Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō, patefaciō
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.516:
- Dissimulant et nūbe cavā speculantur amictī
- They hide their feelings and, veiled by the hollow cloud, they watch.
(Aeneas and Achates are hiding themselves within a divine cloud of mist, yet also concealing their emotions upon seeing fellow Trojans thought lost at sea.)
- to dissemble or disguise, pretend
- Synonyms: fingō, simulō, mentior, affectō, ēmentior, praetendō
- to disregard, neglect, or ignore
- Synonyms: dēserō, relinquō, omittō, dēdō, concēdō, dēcēdō, dēstituō, dēficiō, oblīvīscor, cēdō, trādō, addīcō, praetereō, neglegō, pōnō, reddō, remittō, permittō, tribuō
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Descendants
References
- “dissimulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dissimulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dissimulo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to pretend not to be ill: dissimulare morbum
Portuguese
Verb
dissimulo
- first-person singular present indicative of dissimular