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Italian
Verb
accido
- first-person singular present indicative of accidere
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Latin
Etymology 1
From ad- + cadō (“fall”).
Pronunciation
Verb
accidō (present infinitive accidere, perfect active accidī); third conjugation, no supine stem
- (intransitive) to fall down, upon, at or near; descend
- Synonyms: corruō, incidō, cadō, incurrō, occidō, ruō
- Antonym: orior
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 5.359–360:
- annuit, et mōtīs flōrēs cecidēre capillīs,
accidere in mēnsās ut rosā missa solet- She nodded her assent and, with her hair having been shaken, flowers fell, just as a rose is wont to descend upon a table.
(The goddess Flora (mythology) adorned herself with flowers; during ancient feasts, wealthy Romans sometimes delighted their guests by cascading flowers onto the banquet tables.)
- (intransitive) to happen (to), take place, occur, befall
- Synonyms: interveniō, ēveniō, obveniō, expetō, obtingō, incurrō, accēdō, incidō, intercidō, contingō, fīō
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Etymology 2
From ad- + caedō (“cut; strike”).
Pronunciation
Verb
accīdō (present infinitive accīdere, perfect active accīdī, supine accīsum); third conjugation
- (transitive) to begin to cut or cut into or through; fell, cut down
- (transitive) to use up, consume, diminish
- (transitive) to impair, weaken, shatter, break down, destroy
- (reflexive, intransitive) to become corrupted, fallen into ruin
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Synonyms
- (use up): cōnsūmō, absūmō, hauriō, exhauriō, abūtor, terō, atterō, conterō, dēterō, adedō, eneco, effundo, perago
- (diminish): diminuo, minuo
- (shatter): ferio, tango, percutio, pello, discutio, percello, affligo, impingo, pulsō, ico, caedo, verbero
- (destroy): ruīnō, diruō, perdō, aboleō, dēstruō, dēvāstō, ēvāstō, vāstō, occidō, tollō, exscindō, sepeliō, populor, interimō, perimō, absūmō, trucīdō, impellō
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References
- “accido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “accido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- accido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- accido in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to come to some one's ears: ad aures alicuius (not alicui) pervenire, accidere
- to fall at some one's feet: ad pedes alicuius accidere
- if anything should happen to me; if I die: si quid (humanitus) mihi accidat or acciderit
- it is most fortunate that..: peropportune accidit, quod
- a thing has happened contrary to my expectation: aliquid mihi nec opinanti, insperanti accidit
- it happened miraculously: divinitus accidit