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Latin
Etymology 1
From ex- + cadō (“fall”).
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excidō (present infinitive excidere, perfect active excidī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to fall out, from or down, tumble to the ground, collapse, break down, drop
- to fall out or from involuntarily, slip out, escape
- to differ from someone's opinion, disagree with, dissent
- to be lost or forgotten, pass away, perish, disappear
1st c. BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero,
Epistulae ad Atticum :
- Perterriti voce et vultu confessi sunt se accepisse sed excidisse in via.
- With a terrified voice and face they confessed that they did receive the letter but lost them on the road.
- to lose oneself, fail; faint, swoon
- to slip out, away or escape from memory, i.e. forget
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.25–26:
- necdum etiam causae īrārum saevīque dolōrēs exciderant animō.
- Nor even now had the causes of anger and bitter sorrows slipped from her mind.
- (with ablative) to be deprived of, miss, fail to obtain, forfeit, lose
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Etymology 2
From ex- + caedō (“cut; strike”).
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excīdō (present infinitive excīdere, perfect active excīdī, supine excīsum); third conjugation
- to cut or hew out, off, or down
- excīdō virīlitātem ― I castrate, geld
- to raze, demolish, lay waste, destroy
- (figuratively) to extirpate, remove, banish
- (in a quarry) to cut out, hollow out, excavate
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References
- “excido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “excido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a thing escapes, vanishes from the memory: aliquid excidit e memoria, effluit, excidit ex animo
- the recollection of a thing has been entirely lost: memoria alicuius rei excidit, abiit, abolevit
- no word escaped him: nullum verbum ex ore eius excidit (or simply ei)
- excido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “excidentia, excidere”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 388/1