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agito
agito
English

The Paralympic symbol consists of three agitos.
Noun
agito (plural agitos)
- An asymmetric crescent that is a symbol of the Paralympic movement.
 
Esperanto
Noun
agito (accusative singular agiton, plural agitoj, accusative plural agitojn)
- singular past nominal passive participle of agi
 
Italian
Verb
agito m (feminine singular agita, masculine plural agiti, feminine plural agite)
- past participle of agire
 
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡi.toː/, [ˈa.ɡɪ.toː]
 
Etymology 1
From agō (“do, act, make”) + -itō.
Verb
agitō (present infinitive agitāre, perfect active agitāvī, supine agitātum); first conjugation
- I put something in motion, drive, impel; drive by rowing, row about; shake, throb.
 - I brandish, wield.
 - (of cattle) I drive, conduct; tend, control.
 - (of animals) I hunt, chase, pursue.
 - I drive to and fro, toss about, agitate, disturb.
 - I rouse or stir up, excite, move, urge, drive or impel someone to something, insist on.
 - I disturb, disquiet, provoke, agitate, vex, trouble, torment.
 - I reprove, assail, blame, decry, scoff, deride, insult, mock.
 - I am engaged in, do, accomplish, have, hold, keep; celebrate; practise, exercise.
 - (of time) I pass, spend.
 - I live, dwell, abide, sojourn.
 - (of the mind) I drive at something in the mind; turn over, study, weigh, consider, meditate upon.
 - (of the mind) I am occupied with, devise, contrive, plot, design, intend.
 - I deliberate upon, confer about, discuss, debate, investigate.
 - (with sat (enough) and genitive) I have enough to do, have trouble with, I am fully engaged in.
 
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Etymology 2
Verb
agitō
- second-person singular future active imperative of agō
 - third-person singular future active imperative of agō
 
References
- agito in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
 - agito in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
 - Félix Gaffiot (1934), “agito”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
 -  Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
 - to make a horse prance: agitare equum
 - to be affected by some external impulse, by external impressions: pulsu externo, adventicio agitari
 - to think over, consider a thing: agitare (in) mente or (in) animo aliquid
 - to be tormented by remorse: (mens scelerum furiis agitatur)
 - the Furies harass and torment some one: Furiae agitant et vexant aliquem
 
 - there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur