desinat

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

Found 42 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.144: … persuadeatur quam iam persuasum esse confido, sed ut ille aliquando impudentiae suae finem faciat, aliquando desinat ea se putare emere quae ipse semper habuit venalia,—fidem ius iurandum veritatem officium religionem,—desinan …

Ovid, Amores 1.9.32: Desinat. ingenii est experientis amor.

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.