discerno
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diʃˈʃɛr.no/
- Rhymes: -ɛrno
- Hyphenation: di‧scèr‧no
Verb
discerno
- first-person singular present indicative of discernere
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + cernō (“see, discern”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɪsˈkɛr.noː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d̪iʃˈʃɛr.no]
Verb
discernō (present infinitive discernere, perfect active discrēvī, supine discrētum); third conjugation
- to separate, set apart, divide, part
- (figurative, based upon a thing's qualities) to distinguish between, discern
- (figuratively) to determine, settle
- (figuratively) to except, omit
Conjugation
Conjugation of discernō (third conjugation)
Derived terms
- discernenter
- discernibilis
- discerniculum
- discrētim
- discrētiō
- discrētīvus
- discrētor
- discrētrīx
- discrētus
- discrīmen
Related terms
Descendants
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
- discerno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.