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Italian
Verb
rescindo
- first-person singular present indicative of rescindere
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Latin
Etymology
From re- (“back”) + scindō (“cut, tear asunder; separate”).
Pronunciation
Verb
rescindō (present infinitive rescindere, perfect active rescidī, supine rescissum); third conjugation
- to cut off, cut or break down or back, cut or tear open or loose
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.7:
- Provinciae toti quam maximum potest militum numerum imperat (erat omnino in Gallia ulteriore legio una), pontem, qui erat ad Genavam, iubet rescindi.
- He orders the whole Province as great a number of soldiers as possible, as there was in all only one legion in Further Gaul; he orders the bridge at Geneva to be broken down.
- (figuratively) to annul, abolish, abrogate, cancel, revoke, repeal, rescind
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References
- “rescindo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rescindo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rescindo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to declare a will to be null and void: testamentum rescindere
- to break down a bridge: pontem dissolvere, rescindere, interscindere (B. G. 2. 9. 4)
- to declare a magistrate's decisions null and void: acta rescindere, dissolvere (Phil. 13. 3. 5)
- to rescind a decision: iudicium rescindere
- to rescind a decision: res iudicatas rescindere (Cic. Sull. 22. 63)
Portuguese
Verb
rescindo
- first-person singular present indicative of rescindir
Spanish
Verb
rescindo
- first-person singular present indicative of rescindir