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Latin
Etymology
From abscindō (“tear away; separate”) + -tiō, from ab (“from, away from”) + scindō (“cut, tear; divide”).
Pronunciation
Noun
abscissiō f (genitive abscissiōnis); third declension
- The act of breaking off or tearing away from a discourse; interruption.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “abscissio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abscissio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.