Translation
to give up, to renounce
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Word origin
From Latin resignare ('to unseal, to give back'), through French resigner and German resignieren.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- resignare
- English cognates
- resign, resignation
Examples
: !
Do not give up: you almost succeeded!
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He gave up his grand plan.
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After three hours we gave up and went home.
is the verb of letting go: a plan, a claim, a hope. The thing surrendered usually arrives with , , though the plain accusative also appears. Watch the false friend: resigning from a job is or , not , so means he stopped trying, not that he handed in his notice. Cxesi stops an activity; abandons an ambition, which stings rather more.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 8: rezigni, reala, nuntempe and 7 more words.