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descisco
descisco
Latin
Verb
dēscīscō (present infinitive dēscīscere, perfect active dēscīvī, supine dēscītum); third conjugation
- I free myself, withdraw, leave, defect, desert, revolt from.
- (by extension) I desert to, go over to.
- (in general) I depart, deviate, withdraw from someone or something; fall off from; I am unfaithful to.
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References
- descisco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- descisco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- DESCISCO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “descisco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to swerve from the truth: a veritate deflectere, desciscere
- to deteriorate: a maiorum virtute desciscere, degenerare, deflectere
- to swerve from the truth: a veritate deflectere, desciscere