scindo

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Italian

Verb

scindo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of scindere

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *skindō, from Proto-Indo-European *skinédti ~ *skindénti (to split, to dissect). Cognate with Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō).

Pronunciation

Verb

scindō (present infinitive scindere, perfect active scidī, supine scissum); third conjugation

  1. to cut, tear
    Synonym: dīripiō
  2. to rend or break asunder; carve; split, divide or separate by force
    Synonyms: dīscindō, carpō, findō, discerpō, distineō, discīdō, incīdō, intercīdō, distrahō
    Antonyms: cōgō, congerō, coniungō, contrahō
  3. to tear off one's travelling cloak; urge or press one to stay
  4. to part, separate, divide
  5. to destroy
  6. to distract, agitate, disturb

Conjugation

Note that the perfect active indicative can be reduplicated to form scicidī.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • scindo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • scindo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scindo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.