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Italian
Verb
occido
- first-person singular present indicative of occidere
Latin
Etymology 1
From ob- (“towards; facing”) + cadō (“I fall”).
Pronunciation
Verb
occidō (present infinitive occidere, perfect active occidī, supine occāsum); third conjugation, no passive
- (intransitive) to fall down
- Synonyms: corruō, cadō, incidō, incurrō, accidō, ruō
- Antonym: orior
- (intransitive, of heavenly bodies) to go down, set
- (intransitive) to perish, die, pass away
- Synonyms: morior, pereō, occumbō, dēfungor, intereō, dēcēdō, cadō, exspīrō, discēdō, dēficiō
- (intransitive) to be lost, undone or ruined
Conjugation
1At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").
- Some Old Latin extant locutions had "sol occasus", i.e. "sunset".
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Etymology 2
From ob- (“towards; facing”) + caedō (“I cut”).
Pronunciation
Verb
occīdō (present infinitive occīdere, perfect active occīdī, supine occīsum); third conjugation
- (transitive) to fell, cut to the ground; beat, smash, crush
- (transitive) to cut off, kill, slay, slaughter
- Synonyms: necō, caedō, interficiō, trucīdō, tollō, peragō, percutiō, interimō, perimō, iugulō, obtruncō, cōnficiō, ēnecō, sōpiō, dēiciō, absūmō, cōnsūmō
- (transitive, by extension) to plague to death, torture, torment, pester
- Synonyms: turbō, perturbō, sollicitō, agitō, angō, disturbō, ēvertō, peragō, concitō, moveō, agō, versō, ūrō
- Antonym: cōnsōlor
- (transitive, by extension) to ruin, undo, bring about the ruin of
- Synonyms: ruīnō, diruo, aboleō, dēstruō, dēvāstō, ēvāstō, vāstō, perdō, exscindō, tollo, accido, populor, sepeliō, perimō, interimō, trucīdō, absūmō, impellō
- Antonyms: ēmendō, reficiō, reparō, corrigō, medeor
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References
- “occidō”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “occīdō”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “occido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- occido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the sun rises, sets: sol oritur, occidit
- (ambiguous) to be situate to the north-west: spectare inter occasum solis et septentriones