discerno

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diʃˈʃɛr.no/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrno
  • Hyphenation: di‧scèr‧no

Verb

discerno

  1. first-person singular present indicative of discernere

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From dis- (asunder, in pieces, apart, in two) +‎ cernō (see, discern).

Pronunciation

Verb

discernō (present infinitive discernere, perfect active discrēvī, supine discrētum); third conjugation

  1. to separate, set apart, divide, part
  2. (figurative, based upon a thing's qualities) to distinguish between, discern
  3. (figuratively) to determine, settle
  4. (figuratively) to except, omit

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: discernir
  • English: discern
  • French: discerner
  • Galician: discernir
  • Italian: discernere
  • Piedmontese: disserne
  • Portuguese: discernir
  • Sicilian: discèrniri
  • Spanish: discernir
  • Romanian: discerne

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.