discedo

• IPA^(key): /diʃˈʃɛ.do/
• Rhymes: -ɛdo
• Hyphenation: di‧scè‧do

discedo

1. first-person singular present indicative of discedere

From dis- +‎ cēdō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /disˈkeː.doː/, [d̪ɪs̠ˈkeːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diʃˈʃe.do/, [d̪iʃˈʃɛːd̪o]

discēdō (present infinitive discēdere, perfect active discessī, supine discessum); third conjugation

1. (intransitive) to leave, depart, abandon, retire (with ablative)
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.17:

     Nusquam īnfectā rē discēderent

     Never abandoned an enterprise without accomplishing it (lit: Never withdrew from an unfinished enterprise)

2. (intransitive) to not fulfill, fail to fulfill one's target
3. (intransitive) to deviate from a target or custom
4. (intransitive) to vanish, disappear
5. (intransitive) to die

• (die): morior, pereō, occumbō, dēfungor, exspīrō, dēcēdō, cadō, occidō, intereō, dēficiō
• (retire): recipio, deficio, decedo, recēdō, concēdō, cedo, excēdō, regredior, subtrahō, subdūcō, refero, facessō, āmoveō, vertō, inclīnō
• (move away): evado, exeo, deficio, decedo, abeo, cedo, facesso, digredior, egredior
• (disappear): cēdō, concēdō, excēdō, dēcēdō, pereō, intereō
• (deviate): dēscīscō
• (fail): cadō, dēsum, dēficiō, dēlinquō

• (antonym(s) of “retire”): aggredior, prōcēdō, prōdeō, prōficiō, prōgredior, ēvehō, incēdō
• (antonym(s) of “disappear”): prōcēdō, coorior, exorior, oborior, orior, appāreō, pāreō, ēmergō
• (antonym(s) of “fail”): impetrō, perpetrō, perficiō, ēvincō

• discedo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “discedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “discedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “discedo”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • they disperse in different directions: in diversas partes or simply diversi abeunt, discedunt
    
  • the memory of this will never fade from my mind: numquam ex animo meo memoria illius rei discedet
    
  • putting aside, except: cum discessi, -eris, -eritis ab
    
  • (ambiguous) to leave a place: discedere a, de, ex loco aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to be always at a person's side: ab alicuius latere non discedere
    
  • (ambiguous) to give up one's opinion: a sententia sua discedere
    
  • (ambiguous) to deviate from the path of virtue: a virtute discedere or deficere
    
  • (ambiguous) to neglect one's duty: ab officio discedere
    
  • (ambiguous) to give up old customs: a vetere consuetudine discedere
    
  • (ambiguous) to transgress a law: a lege discedere
    
  • (ambiguous) to divide into two factions: in duas partes discedere (Sall. Iug. 13. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to vote for some one's motion: discedere (pedibus), ire in alicuius sententiam (Liv. 23. 10)
    
  • (ambiguous) to lay down arms: ab armis discedere (Phil. 11. 33)
    
  • (ambiguous) to follow the standards: signa sequi (opp. a signis discedere, signa relinquere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be defeated in fight, lose the battle: proelio vinci, superari, inferiorem, victum discedere
    
  • (ambiguous) to come off victorious: superiorem (opp. inferiorem), victorem (proelio, pugna) discedere