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cessare

cessare is a Latin form of cesso, meaning “stop, cease; delay, be idle”. It is the 2nd person singular present passive imperative or 2nd person singular present passive indicative or present active infinitive.

Found 41 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.93: … tis. Fac esse distentam, caelum versantem terram tuentem maria moderantem: cur tam multos deos nihil agere et cessare patitur, cur non rebus humanis aliquos otiosos deos praeficit, qui a te Balbe innumerabiles explicati sunt? H …

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.