discidium

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Latin

Etymology

From discindō (“I tear asunder”) +‎ -ium, from dis- +‎ scindō (“I cleave, tear”); compare excidium (“military destruction”).

Pronunciation

Noun

discidium n (genitive discidiī or discidī); second declension

  1. separation, divorce
  2. discord, disagreement

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative discidium discidia
genitive discidiī
discidī1 		discidiōrum
dative discidiō discidiīs
accusative discidium discidia
ablative discidiō discidiīs
vocative discidium discidia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

  • “discidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “discidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • discidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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