dissimulo

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See also: dissimulò

Catalan

Verb

dissimulo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of dissimular

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /disˈsi.mu.lo/
  • Rhymes: -imulo
  • Hyphenation: dis‧sì‧mu‧lo

Verb

dissimulo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of dissimulare

Latin

Etymology

From dissimilis (unlike) +‎ , with i changed to u before a thick l.

Pronunciation

Verb

dissimulō (present infinitive dissimulāre, perfect active dissimulāvī, supine dissimulātum); first conjugation

  1. 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.)
  2. to dissemble or disguise, pretend
    Synonyms: fingō, simulō, mentior, affectō, ēmentior, praetendō
  3. 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

Conjugation

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

  1. first-person singular present indicative of dissimular