cesso

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈse.su]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈse.so]

cesso

1. first-person singular present indicative of cessar

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛs.so/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛsso
• Hyphenation: cès‧so

Deverbal from cessare (“to remove, to cause to withdraw (archaic)”) +‎ -o.^[2]

cesso m (plural cessi)

1. (informal, mildly vulgar) toilet, bog (UK), john (US)
2. (mildly vulgar) shithole
3. (military slang) latrine

• vuotacessi

• gabinetto

cesso m (plural cessi, feminine cessa)

1. (informal, derogatory, mildly vulgar) a fugly person

cesso (feminine cessa, masculine plural cessi, feminine plural cesse)

1. (informal, mildly vulgar) fugly

cesso

1. first-person singular present indicative of cessare

• cosse, sceso

From cēdō (“to withdraw”) + -tō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛs.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛs.so]

cessō (present infinitive cessāre, perfect active cessāvī, supine cessātum); first conjugation (intransitive)

1. to stop, desist, halt, cease

   Synonyms: subsistō, dēsistō, remittō, dēsinō, conticēscō, sistō, quiēscō, trānseō

   Antonyms: coepiō, incohō, incipiō

   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Proverbs.19.27:

     Nōn cessēs, fīlī, audīre doctrīnam, nec ignōrēs sermōnēs scientiae.

     Cease not, O my son, to hear instruction, and be not ignorant of the words of knowledge.
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

2. to be lacking or wanting

   Synonyms: dēsum, egeō, deficiō, dēlinquō, careō, indigeō, perdō

   Antonyms: flōreō, niteō, abundō, affluō

   • audacia cessare: lacking audacity
3. to delay, hold back, tarry
4. to rest, be still, inactive

   Synonyms: dēsideō, vacō, langueō, iaceō, resideō, sileō, conquiēscō, conticēscō

5. (of things) to be left alone, be at rest, do nothing, stand idle, lie fallow, dormant
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.16:

     Saepe bona māteria cessat sine artifice: temptā et experīre.

     Often good material lies dormant without an artist: try it and find out.
     (Seneca uses the metaphor of an artist and his material to refer to someone cultivating a friendship; in the context of letter 47, a master and his slave.)

6. to be free of

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

• “cesso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cesso in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “cesso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cesso”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the wind dies down, ceases: ventus cadit, cessat
    

cesso

1. first-person singular present indicative of cessar