# agito
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin agitō (“I chase”).

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ag‧i‧to

### Noun

agito (plural agitos)
* An asymmetric crescent that is a symbol of the Paralympic movement.

### Anagrams

* Tagoi, Tioga

## Catalan
### Verb

agito
* first-person singular present indicative of agitar

## Esperanto
### Noun

agito (accusative singular agiton, plural agitoj, accusative plural agitojn)
* singular past nominal passive participle of agi

## Ido
### Verb

agito
* singular nominal past passive participle of agar

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈd͡ʒi.to/
* Rhymes: -ito
* Hyphenation: a‧gì‧to

#### Participle

agito (feminine agita, masculine plural agiti, feminine plural agite)
* past participle of agire

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.d͡ʒi.to/
* Rhymes: -adʒito
* Hyphenation: à‧gi‧to

#### Verb

agito
* first-person singular present indicative of agitare

### Anagrams

* Gaito

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈa.ɡi.toː/, [ˈäɡɪt̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈa.d͡ʒi.to/, [ˈäːd͡ʒit̪o]

### Etymology 1

From agō (“do, act, make”) +‎ -itō (frequentative suffix). See actus.

#### Verb

agitō (present infinitive agitāre, perfect active agitāvī, supine agitātum); first conjugation
* to act, behave, do, or make persistently or unremittingly
* to put something in motion, drive, impel; drive by rowing, row about; shake, throb
* to brandish, wield
* (of cattle) to drive, conduct; tend, control
* (of animals) to hunt, chase, pursue
* to drive to and fro, toss about, agitate, disturb, churn
** 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, The Heroines 7:mare, quale vides agitāri nunc quoque ventis.The sea, the sort you now see, also churned up by the winds.
* to rouse or stir up, excite, move, urge, drive or impel someone to something, insist on
* to disturb, disquiet, provoke, agitate, vex, trouble, torment
    Synonyms: fatīgō, turbō, perturbō, sollicitō, angō, concitō, percieō, concieō, cieō, disturbō, īnfestō, irrītō, stimulō, lacessō, ēvertō, peragō, moveō, occīdō, agō, versō, ūrō
    Antonym: cōnsōlor
** 9 CE, Ovid, The Ibis 159:Hīs vīvus Furiīs agitābere, mortuus īsdem.You'll be tormented by these Furies while alive, and when dead by the same.
* to reprove, assail, blame, decry, scoff, deride, insult, mock
* to be engaged in, do, accomplish, have, hold, keep; celebrate; practise, exercise
* (of time) to pass, spend
* to live, dwell, abide, sojourn
* (of the mind) to drive at something in the mind; turn over, study, weigh, consider, meditate upon
* (of the mind) to be occupied with, devise, contrive, plot, design, intend
* to deliberate upon, confer about, discuss, debate, investigate
* (with sat (enough) and genitive) to have enough to do, have trouble with, to be fully engaged in

##### Conjugation

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

##### Derived terms

* agitābilis
* agitātiō
* agitātor
* agitātus
* cōgitō
* peragitō
* subigitō

##### Related terms

* agō

##### Descendants

* Catalan: agitar
* → English: agitate
* → Finnish: agitoida
* French: agiter
** → Romanian: agita
* Galician: axitar
* Italian: agitare
* Piedmontese: agité
* Portuguese: agitar
* Spanish: agitar

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

agitō
* second/third-person singular future active imperative of agō

### References

* “agito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “agito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* agito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur to make a horse prance: agitare equum to be affected by some external impulse, by external impressions: pulsu externo, adventicio agitari to think over, consider a thing: agitare (in) mente or (in) animo aliquid to be tormented by remorse: (mens scelerum furiis agitatur) the Furies harass and torment some one: Furiae agitant et vexant aliquem

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /aˈʒi.tu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /aˈʒi.tu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /aˈʒi.to/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐˈʒi.tu/

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from agitar.

#### Noun

agito m (plural agitos)
* (colloquial) a party with lively dancing
* agitation (the state of being agitated)
    Synonym: agitação

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

agito
* first-person singular present indicative of agitar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈxito/ [aˈxi.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -ito
* Syllabification: a‧gi‧to
* Homophone: ajito

### Verb

agito
* first-person singular present indicative of agitar