insisto
Italian
Verb
insisto
- first-person singular present indicative of insistere
Anagrams
- sistino
Latin
Etymology
From in- + sistō (“stand, set, place”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈsis.toː/, [ĩːˈs̠ɪs̠t̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈsis.to/, [inˈsist̪o]
Verb
īnsistō (present infinitive īnsistere, perfect active īnstitī); third conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal in the passive
- (transitive) I set foot, stand, tread or press on or upon something.
- (transitive, with viam or iter) I enter or embark on, pursue (a way, path or journey).
- (with dative) I follow, pursue, press on.
- (intransitive) I halt, pause, stop, stand still; pause in thought, dwell upon, hesitate, doubt.
- (figuratively, with dative) I press upon, urge.
- (figuratively, with dative or accusative) I set about, devote or apply myself to, set to work (on).
- (figuratively, with dative or infinitive) I persevere, continue, persist in
Conjugation
| Conjugation of īnsistō (third conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal in passive) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | īnsistō | īnsistis | īnsistit | īnsistimus | īnsistitis | īnsistunt |
| imperfect | īnsistēbam | īnsistēbās | īnsistēbat | īnsistēbāmus | īnsistēbātis | īnsistēbant | |
| future | īnsistam | īnsistēs | īnsistet | īnsistēmus | īnsistētis | īnsistent | |
| perfect | īnstitī | īnstitistī | īnstitit | īnstitimus | īnstitistis | īnstitērunt, īnstitēre | |
| pluperfect | īnstiteram | īnstiterās | īnstiterat | īnstiterāmus | īnstiterātis | īnstiterant | |
| future perfect | īnstiterō | īnstiteris | īnstiterit | īnstiterimus | īnstiteritis | īnstiterint | |
| passive | present | — | — | īnsistitur | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | īnsistēbātur | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | īnsistētur | — | — | — | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | īnsistam | īnsistās | īnsistat | īnsistāmus | īnsistātis | īnsistant |
| imperfect | īnsisterem | īnsisterēs | īnsisteret | īnsisterēmus | īnsisterētis | īnsisterent | |
| perfect | īnstiterim | īnstiterīs | īnstiterit | īnstiterīmus | īnstiterītis | īnstiterint | |
| pluperfect | īnstitissem | īnstitissēs | īnstitisset | īnstitissēmus | īnstitissētis | īnstitissent | |
| passive | present | — | — | īnsistātur | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | īnsisterētur | — | — | — | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | īnsiste | — | — | īnsistite | — |
| future | — | īnsistitō | īnsistitō | — | īnsistitōte | īnsistuntō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | īnsistere | īnstitisse | — | īnsistī | — | — | |
| participles | īnsistēns | — | — | — | — | īnsistendum, īnsistundum | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| īnsistendī | īnsistendō | īnsistendum | īnsistendō | — | — | ||
Related terms
- absistō
- assistō
- circumsistō
- cōnsistō
- dēsistō
- exsistō
- obsistō
- persistō
- resistō
- sistō
- subsistō
Descendants
- Catalan: insistir
- English: insist
- Esperanto: insisti
- French: insister
- Italian: insistere
- Portuguese: insistir
- Sicilian: nzìstiri
- Spanish: insistir
- Romanian: insista
See also
- īnstō
References
- “insisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “insisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- insisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to follow in any one's steps: vestigiis alicuius insistere, ingredi (also metaph.)
- to follow in any one's steps: vestigiis alicuius insistere, ingredi (also metaph.)
Portuguese
Verb
insisto
- first-person singular present indicative of insistir
Spanish
Verb
insisto
- first-person singular present indicative of insistir