denego

See also: denegó

Catalan

Verb

denego

  1. first-person singular present indicative of denegar

Latin

Etymology

From dē- +‎ negō.

Pronunciation

Verb

dēnegō (present infinitive dēnegāre, perfect active dēnegāvī, supine dēnegātum); first conjugation

  1. to deny, reject or refuse (a request); to say no
    Synonyms: negō, renuō, abnuō, recūsō
    Antonyms: accipiō, adnuō, affirmō, firmō, consentiō
    • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 241–242:
      PAMPHILUS: Quid? Chremēs, quī dēnegārat sē commissūrum mihi / gnātam suam uxōrem, id mūtāvit quia mē immūtātum videt?
      PAMPHILUS: What? Chremes — who had denied that he would entrust his own daughter to me as a wife — has he changed [his mind] because he sees mine unchanged?

Conjugation

1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Descendants

  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: dennegare, dennegai
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: dineâ
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • ? Old French: deniier, deneiier, denoiier, desnoier
  • Ibero-Romance: (possibly all borrowings)
  • Borrowings:

References

  • denego”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • denego”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • denego”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to refuse, reject a request: negare, more strongly denegare alicui aliquid