"dissimulate" meaning in All languages combined

See dissimulate on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /dɪˈsɪmjʊˌleɪt/, /-jə-/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dissimulate.wav
Etymology: From Latin dissimulare; compare obsolete dissimule (“to conceal, disguise”), from Old French dissimuler, ultimately from the same Latin root. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*sem-}}, {{der|en|la|dissimulare}} Latin dissimulare, {{cog|fro|dissimuler}} Old French dissimuler Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} dissimulate (not comparable)
  1. (obsolete) Feigning; simulating; pretending. Tags: not-comparable, obsolete
    Sense id: en-dissimulate-en-adj-am0-QcIN Categories (other): Terms with Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 31 12 20 37

Verb [English]

IPA: /dɪˈsɪmjʊˌleɪt/, /-jə-/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dissimulate.wav Forms: dissimulates [present, singular, third-person], dissimulating [participle, present], dissimulated [participle, past], dissimulated [past]
Etymology: From Latin dissimulare; compare obsolete dissimule (“to conceal, disguise”), from Old French dissimuler, ultimately from the same Latin root. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*sem-}}, {{der|en|la|dissimulare}} Latin dissimulare, {{cog|fro|dissimuler}} Old French dissimuler Head templates: {{en-verb}} dissimulate (third-person singular simple present dissimulates, present participle dissimulating, simple past and past participle dissimulated)
  1. (intransitive) To practise deception by concealment or omission, or by feigning a false appearance; to dissemble. Tags: intransitive Translations (to deceive by concealment or omission): преструвам се (prestruvam se) (Bulgarian), симулирам (simuliram) (Bulgarian), přetvařovat se (Czech), sich verstellen (German), συγκαλύπτω (sygkalýpto) (Greek), αποκρύπτω (apokrýpto) (Greek), tuapeka (Maori), whakatuapeka (Maori), fortie (Norwegian), disimular (Spanish), tapiñar [Latin-America] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-dissimulate-en-verb-mpCI8K4X Categories (other): Terms with Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 31 12 20 37 Disambiguation of 'to deceive by concealment or omission': 92 7 1
  2. (transitive) To disguise or hide by adopting a false appearance; to dissemble. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-dissimulate-en-verb-FwWNrQLt Categories (other): Terms with Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 31 12 20 37
  3. (transitive, rare) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice. Tags: rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-dissimulate-en-verb-zdH0M1N9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 4 18 46 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 32 8 19 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 29 10 19 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 30 10 17 42 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 32 8 18 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 31 12 20 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 30 9 18 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 30 9 18 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 32 8 19 41
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dissimulatingly, dissimulation, dissimulator, undissimulated

Verb [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|verb form}} dissimulate
  1. inflection of dissimulare:
    second-person plural present indicative
    Tags: form-of, indicative, plural, present, second-person Form of: dissimulare
    Sense id: en-dissimulate-it-verb-1cplRzdg Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Italian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 16 3 9 21 41 7 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 16 2 9 22 45 4 2 Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 73 21 7
  2. inflection of dissimulare:
    second-person plural imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, plural, second-person Form of: dissimulare
    Sense id: en-dissimulate-it-verb-xqqSvBTk
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|past participle form|g=f-p}} dissimulate f pl
  1. feminine plural of dissimulato Tags: feminine, form-of, participle, plural Form of: dissimulato
    Sense id: en-dissimulate-it-verb-HHhcONk1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [Latin]

Forms: dissimulāte [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|la|verb form|head=dissimulāte}} dissimulāte
  1. second-person plural present active imperative of dissimulō Tags: active, form-of, imperative, plural, present, second-person Form of: dissimulō
    Sense id: en-dissimulate-la-verb-EnV0GaSR Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        "(intransitive) To practise deception by concealment or omission, or by feigning a false appearance; to dissemble."
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          "ref": "1533 John Bourchier (Lord Berners), The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius 9",
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        "(transitive, rare) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice."
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          "ref": "1913, Booth Tarkington, chapter 13, in The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 212:",
          "text": "But now, as he paced alone in his apartment, now that he was not upon exhibition, now when there was no eye to behold him, and there was no reason to dissimulate or veil a single thought or feeling, his look was anything but open; the last trace of frankness disappeared; the muscles at mouth and eyes shifted; lines and planes intermingled and altered subtly; there was a moment of misty transformation – and the face of another man emerged. It was the face of a man uninstructed in mercy; it was a shrewd and planning face: alert, resourceful, elaborately perceptive, and flawlessly hard.",
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        "(intransitive) To practise deception by concealment or omission, or by feigning a false appearance; to dissemble."
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          "ref": "1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 38:",
          "text": "[P]ublic feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows.",
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        "(transitive) To disguise or hide by adopting a false appearance; to dissemble."
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        {
          "ref": "1533 John Bourchier (Lord Berners), The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius 9",
          "text": "That al thyng be forgiven to theim that be olde and broken, and to theim that be yonge and lusty to dissimulate for a time, and nothyng to be forgiuen to very yong children."
        }
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        "To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice."
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        "(transitive, rare) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice."
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "prestruvam se",
      "sense": "to deceive by concealment or omission",
      "word": "преструвам се"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "simuliram",
      "sense": "to deceive by concealment or omission",
      "word": "симулирам"
    },
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      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to deceive by concealment or omission",
      "word": "přetvařovat se"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to deceive by concealment or omission",
      "word": "sich verstellen"
    },
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      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "sygkalýpto",
      "sense": "to deceive by concealment or omission",
      "word": "συγκαλύπτω"
    },
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      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "apokrýpto",
      "sense": "to deceive by concealment or omission",
      "word": "αποκρύπτω"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to deceive by concealment or omission",
      "word": "tuapeka"
    },
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to deceive by concealment or omission",
      "word": "whakatuapeka"
    },
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      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to deceive by concealment or omission",
      "word": "fortie"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to deceive by concealment or omission",
      "word": "disimular"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to deceive by concealment or omission",
      "tags": [
        "Latin-America"
      ],
      "word": "tapiñar"
    }
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}

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          "ref": "c. 1480, Robert Henryson, The Cock and the Fox:",
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        "(obsolete) Feigning; simulating; pretending."
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      "ipa": "/dɪˈsɪmjʊˌleɪt/"
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      "form": "dissimulāte",
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        "canonical"
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  ],
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      ],
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    }
  ],
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}

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