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Verb
dissipo
- first-person singular present indicative of dissipar
Italian
Verb
dissipo
- first-person singular present indicative of dissipare
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Latin
Etymology
From dis- + supō.
Pronunciation
Verb
dissipō (present infinitive dissipāre, perfect active dissipāvī, supine dissipātum); first conjugation
- to scatter, disperse. spread abroad
- Synonyms: fundō, effundō, confundō, diffundō, dēfundō, differō, indūcō, sternō
- to dissipate or squander
- Synonyms: abūtor, conterō, cōnsūmō, perdō, effundō
- to demolish, overthrow, destroy, ruin
- Synonyms: impellō, subvertō, pervertō, ēvertō, versō, vertō, afflīgō, sternō, prōsternō, fundō
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.29.8:
- hominēs pestilentēs dissipant cīvitātem sapientēs āvertunt furōrem
- Corrupt men bring a city to ruin: but wise men turn away wrath. (trans. Douay-Rheims Bible)
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References
- “dissipo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dissipo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dissipo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to spread a rumour: famam dissipare
- to squander all one's property: dissipare rem familiarem (suam)
Portuguese
Verb
dissipo
- first-person singular present indicative of dissipar