insisto

Galician

Verb

insisto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of insistir

Italian

Verb

insisto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of insistere

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ sistō (stand, set, place).

Pronunciation

Verb

īnsistō (present infinitive īnsistere, perfect active īnstitī); third conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal in the passive

  1. (transitive) to set foot, stand, tread or press on or upon something
  2. (transitive, with viam or iter) to enter or embark on, pursue (a way, path or journey)
  3. (with dative) to follow, pursue, press on
  4. (intransitive) to halt, pause, stop, stand still; pause in thought, dwell upon, hesitate, doubt
  5. (figuratively, with dative) to press upon, urge
  6. (figuratively, with dative or accusative) to set about, devote or apply oneself to, set to work (on)
  7. (figuratively, with dative or infinitive) to persevere, continue, persist in

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: insistir
  • English: insist
  • Esperanto: insisti
  • French: insister
  • Galician: insistir
  • Italian: insistere
  • Portuguese: insistir
  • Romanian: insista
  • Sicilian: nzìstiri
  • Spanish: insistir

References

  • insisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • insisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • insisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to follow in any one's steps: vestigiis alicuius insistere, ingredi (also metaph.)

Portuguese

Verb

insisto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of insistir

Spanish

Verb

insisto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of insistir