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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan”). Cognate with Sanskrit स्कुन्दते (skundate, “to jump, rise, lift”), स्कन्दति (skándati, “to leap, jump, hop, dart, spring, spurt; to assail; to copulate”), Sanskrit स्कन्ध (skandhá, “trunk, nape, shoulder; branching, scale, ordering”), Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “stumbling-block”), Sanskrit छन्दस् (chándas, “scansion, metrical aspect of verse”), Old Irish sceinnid (“to spring”), Welsh cychwynnu (“to arise, start”).[1]
Compare Ancient Greek σκιρτάω (skirtáō, “to leap, skip, bound”), Sanskrit आस्क्र (āskra, “attacking, assaulting; united, joined”), Ancient Greek σκαρθμός (skarthmós, “leap, dance, prancing”).
Pronunciation
Verb
scandō (present infinitive scandere, perfect active scandī, supine scānsum); third conjugation
- (transitive, intransitive) to climb, ascend, mount
- (transitive) Synonyms: levō, ēlevō, allevō, ērigō, excellō, tollō, ēvehō, efferō, surgō, ēdō
- (transitive) Antonyms: dēiciō, abiciō
- (transitive, intransitive) to clamber
- (intransitive) Synonyms: ascendō, escendō, cōnscendō, īnscendō, succēdō, ēnītor, superscandō, suprascandō, subeō, ērēpō
- (intransitive) Antonyms: dēscendō, dēcurrō
- (Late Latin, transitive) to scan (poetry by its feet)
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Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “scandō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 542-3
Further reading
- “scando”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scando”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scando in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.