cessant

cessant is a Latin form of cesso, meaning “stop, cease; delay, be idle”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.102: … otii. Profecto Epicurus quasi pueri delicati nihil cessatione melius existimat. at ipsi tamen pueri etiam cum cessant exercitatione aliqua ludicra delectantur: deum sic feriatum volumus cessatione torpere, ut, si se commoverit, …

All forms of cesso (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.