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desinere

desinere is a Latin form of desino, meaning “stop, cease, leave off”. It is the 2nd person singular future passive indicative or 2nd person singular present passive imperative or 2nd person singular present passive indicative or present active infinitive.

Found 45 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro L. Murena 9: quod si licet desinere, si te auctore possum, si nulla inertiae infamia, nulla superbiae turpitudo, nulla inhumanitatis culpa suscip …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 3.26.8: Desinere iam volebam et manus spectabat ad clausulam; sed conficienda sunt sacra et huic epistulae viaticum dandum est …

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.