desinebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →desino, desinere, desivi, desitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stop/end/finish, abandon/leave/break off, desist/cease; come to/at end/close;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...olim populi prius honorem capiebat suffragio, quam magistro desinebat esse dicto oboediens; at nunc, prius quam septuennis..."Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...volo: numquam dubitavit, numquam intermisit; semel incipiebat, semel desinebat. Quaedam tamen et nationibus puto magis aut minus convenire..."