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cesso
cesso
See also: cessò
Italian
Etymology
From Latin locus (“place”) secessus (“withdrawn, secluded, apart”).
Noun
cesso m (plural cessi)
- (informal) toilet, bog (UK), john (US)
- (vulgar) shithole
- (military slang) latrine
- (informal) a fugly person
Derived terms
See also
Adjective
cesso m (feminine singular cessa, masculine plural cessi, feminine plural cesse)
- (informal) fugly
Verb
cesso
- first-person singular present indicative of cessare
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From cēdō (“I withdraw”) + -tō
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkes.soː/, [ˈkɛs.soː]
Verb
cessō (present infinitive cessāre, perfect active cessāvī, supine cessātum); first conjugation
Inflection
Descendants
References
- cesso in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cesso in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cesso”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the wind dies down, ceases: ventus cadit, cessat
- the wind dies down, ceases: ventus cadit, cessat