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Latin
- abcīdō (potentially erroneous)
Etymology
From ab- (“away from”) + caedō (“cut, fell; strike; kill”).
Pronunciation
Verb
abscīdō (present infinitive abscīdere, perfect active abscīdī, supine abscīsum); third conjugation
- to cut off (with an instrument), cut short
- (medicine) to amputate
- (figuratively) to deprive (of), cut off, detract
- (figuratively) to banish, forbid, expel; destroy (hope)
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References
- “abscido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abscido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abscido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.