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Italian
Verb
incido
- first-person singular present indicative of incidere
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
From in- (“into, to”) + cadō (“to fall, fall down, drop”).
Pronunciation
Verb
incidō (present infinitive incidere, perfect active incidī, future participle incāsūrus); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle
- (literally)
- (in general) to fall or drop into or upon something
- (in particular) to fall upon, meet, come upon (by chance), happen on, fall in with a person or thing
- (transferred sense) to fall upon, attack, assault
- incidere in hostes ― to fall upon the enemy
- (figurative)
- (in general) to fall into any condition
- manibus (or in manus) incidere ― to fall under the influence (or authority) of someone
- to fall upon, arise, occur; to happen to, befall
- (in particular)
- to fall upon accidentally; to crop up, fall upon, light upon in thought or conversation
- to come or occur to one's mind
- casu in alicuius mentionem incidere ― to come to one’s mind by chance
- to fall upon, happen in a certain time
Usage notes
In Late Latin, the prepositional use is sometimes replaced with a bare accusative.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (fall): corruō, accidō, cadō, incurrō, occidō, ruō
- (happen): ēveniō, interveniō, obveniō, obtingō, accidō, accēdō, incurrō, contingō, intercidō, expetō, fīō
- (assault): invādō, incurrō, impetō, aggredior, īnstō, inruō, excurrō, concurrō, occurrō, petō, accēdō, irrumpō, intrō, incēdō, adorior, adeō, opprimō, appetō, incessō, arripiō, lacessō
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of "fall"): orior
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Descendants of incidō in other languages
Etymology 2
From in- (“into, to”) + caedō (“to cut, hew, lop; to beat, strike”).
Pronunciation
Verb
incīdō (present infinitive incīdere, perfect active incīdī, supine incīsum); third conjugation
- (literally, Classical Latin) to cut or hew open, into, through, or up; to dissect, slit, sever; to clip
- Synonyms: findō, scindō, dīscindō, discerpō, discīdō, carpō, intercīdō, amputō, putō
- (transferred sense)
- to cut into, carve, engrave, inscribe on something
- (rare) to make by cutting, cut
- (figurative)
- to break off, interrupt, stop, put an end to
- to cut off, cut short, take away, remove
- (rhetoric) to make by cutting, to cut
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Descendants
Descendants of incīdō in other languages
References
- “incido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “incido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- incido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to meet, come across a person; to meet casually: incidere in aliquem
- occasions arise for..: incidunt tempora, cum
- to fall unexpectedly into some one's hands: in alicuius manus incidere
- to happen during a person's life, year of office: in aetatem alicuius, in annum incidere
- he fell ill: in morbum incidit
- to be overtaken by calamity: in calamitatem incidere
- to find oneself in a hazardous position: in pericula incidere, incurrere
- to suffer reproof; to be criticised, blamed: in vituperationem, reprehensionem cadere, incidere, venire
- to mention a thing incidentally, casually: in mentionem alicuius rei incidere
- to mention a thing incidentally, casually: mentio alicuius rei incidit
- to happen to think of..: in eam cogitationem incidere
- to be overwhelmed by a great affliction: in maximos luctus incidere
- terror, panic seizes some one: terror incidit alicui
- to cut off all hope: spem praecīdere, incidere (Liv. 2. 15)
- to talk of a subject which was then the common topic of conversation: in eum sermonem incidere, qui tum fere multis erat in ore
- the conversation turned on..: sermo incidit de aliqua re
- to get into debt: incidere in aes alienum
- (ambiguous) the epitaph: elogium in sepulcro incisum
- DIZIONARIO LATINO OLIVETTI
Anagrams
Portuguese
Verb
incido
- first-person singular present indicative of incidir
Spanish
Verb
incido
- first-person singular present indicative of incidir