abdico

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

abdico

1. first-person singular present indicative of abdicar

abdico

1. first-person singular present indicative of abdicar

abdico

1. first-person singular present indicative of abdicare

From ab- (“from”) +‎ dīcō (“say”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /abˈdiː.koː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈdi.ko/,

abdīcō (present infinitive abdīcere, perfect active abdīxī, supine abdictum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative (rare)

1. (of an unfavorable omen, only once attested) to be against, disapprove of, reject, refuse, deny, forbid, disallow, condemn

   Synonyms: prohibeō, vetō

   • 45 BCE, Cicero, De divinatione 1.17.31:

     Itaque sue inventā ad merīdiem spectāns in vīneā mediā dīcitur cōnstitisse, cumque in quattuor partīs vīneam dīvīsisset trīsque partīs avēs abdīxissent, quārtā parte, quae erat relīqua, in regiōnēs distribūta, mīrābilī magnitūdine ūvam, ut scriptum vidēmus, invēnit.

     So, with the sow found, he is said to have stood in the middle of the vinyard looking south, and when he divided the vinyard into four parts the birds refused three parts, and with the fourth part, which was remaining, divided into regions, he found, as we find written, a bunch of grapes of extraordinary size.

2. (law) to take away by sentence, withhold a right

   Synonym: dētrahō

¹Archaic.

From ab- (“from”) +‎ dicō (“I dedicate”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈab.di.koː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈab.di.ko/,

abdicō (present infinitive abdicāre, perfect active abdicāvī, supine abdicātum); first conjugation

1. to deny, refuse to acknowledge, reject

   Synonyms: abnegō, abnuō, dēnegō, negō, recūsō, respuō

   Antonyms: approbō, cōnfiteor, dō, permittō

2. to resign, abdicate
3. to abolish, renounce
4. to disinherit, disown

• → Albanian: abdikoj
• → Catalan: abdicar
• → Czech: abdikovat
• → Danish: abdicere
• → English: abdicate
• → Esperanto: abdiki
  • → Ido: abdikar
• → German: abdizieren
  • → Dutch: abdiceren
• → Galician: abdicar
• → Italian: abdicare
• → Middle French: abdiquer
  • French: abdiquer
    • → Bulgarian: абдики́рам (abdikíram)
    • → Romanian: abdica
• → Norwegian Bokmål: abdisere
• → Occitan: abdicar
• → Portuguese: abdicar
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: абдицирати

  Latin script: abdicirati

• → Slovene: abdicirati
• → Sicilian: abdicari
• → Spanish: abdicar

• “abdico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “abdico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• abdico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the omens are favourable to some one: aves (alites, oscines) addīcunt alicui (opp. abdicunt aliquid)
    
  • to resign one's post (before the expiry of the term of office): abdicare se magistratu (Div. 2. 35)
    
• abdico in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• 2004, Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 1.

abdico

1. first-person singular present indicative of abdicar

• IPA^(key): /abˈdiko/
• Rhymes: -iko
• Syllabification: ab‧di‧co

abdico

1. first-person singular present indicative of abdicar