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discerno
discerno
Latin
Etymology
dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + cernō (“see, discern”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /disˈker.noː/, [dɪsˈkɛr.noː]
Verb
discernō (present infinitive discernere, perfect active discrēvī, supine discrētum); third conjugation
- I separate, set apart, divide, part.
- (figuratively, based upon a thing's qualities) I distinguish between, discern.
- (figuratively) I determine, settle.
- (figuratively) I except, omit
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References
- discerno in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- discerno in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “discerno”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.