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desinant

desinant is a Latin form of desino, meaning “stop, cease, leave off”. It is the 3rd person plural present active subjunctive.

Found 36 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 140: quapropter desinant aliquando dicere male aliquem locutum esse, si qui vere ac libere locutus sit, desinant suam causam cum Chrys …

Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis 6.21.4: " Desinant," inquit, " velle." Hoc loco tibi illud occurrat : Quis tam demens est, ut eam neget voluntatem esse, cui non …

All forms of desino (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.