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Verb
instigo
- first-person singular present indicative of instigar
Esperanto
Etymology
instigi + -o
Pronunciation
Noun
instigo (uncountable, accusative instigon)
- instigation, prompting, suggestion ("act of instigating")
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *steigō, maybe from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg-.
Cognate to Latin stilus, Ancient Greek στίζω (stízō, “to mark with a pointed instrument”) and Proto-Germanic *stikaną (“to stick, to stab”).
Pronunciation
Verb
īnstīgō (present infinitive īnstīgāre, perfect active īnstīgāvī, supine īnstīgātum); first conjugation
- to stimulate, set on, incite, rouse or urge
- Synonyms: excitō, urgeō, īnstinguō, exciō, irrītō, stimulō, sollicitō, percieō, concieō, cieō, concitō, impellō, īnflammō, incendō, moveō, mōlior, adhortor, ērigō
- Antonyms: domō, lēniō, sōpiō, sēdō, dēlēniō, plācō, coerceō, mītigō, commītigō, ēlevō, levō, allevō, alleviō, restinguō
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References
- “instigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “instigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- instigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “instigate”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Portuguese
Verb
instigo
- first-person singular present indicative of instigar
Spanish
Verb
instigo
- first-person singular present indicative of instigar