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Italian
Verb
disto
- first-person singular present indicative of distare
Latin
Etymology
From dis- + stō (“stand”).
Pronunciation
Verb
distō (present infinitive distāre, perfect active distitī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- (intransitive) to stand apart; to be distant
- Synonym: dissideō
- Antonyms: īnstō, contingō, astō, immineō
- to differ
- Synonyms: dissideō, abhorreō, differō
Conjugation
- The perfect forms like distitī are rare, occurring only post-Classically and only in Ennodius and Boethius.
Descendants
References
- “disto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “disto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- disto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be equidistant: paribus intervallis distare
- Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -istu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃtu
- Hyphenation: dis‧to
Etymology 1
Contraction
disto n
- Contraction of de isto (“of/from this thing”): neuter of deste
See also
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
disto
- first-person singular present indicative of distar
Spanish
Verb
disto
- first-person singular present indicative of distar