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Italian
Verb
scindo
- 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
- to cut, tear
- Synonym: dīripiō
- 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
- to tear off one's travelling cloak; urge or press one to stay
- to part, separate, divide
- to destroy
- 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.