rescindo

Italian

Verb

rescindo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rescindere

Anagrams

• discerno, nodrisce, riscendo, scinderò

Latin

Etymology

From re- (“back”) +‎ scindō (“cut, tear asunder; separate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /resˈkin.doː/, [rɛs̠ˈkɪn̪d̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reʃˈʃin.do/, [reʃˈʃin̪d̪o]

Verb

rescindō (present infinitive rescindere, perfect active rescidī, supine rescissum); third conjugation

1. 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 [to furnish] 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.

2. (figuratively) to annul, abolish, abrogate, cancel, revoke, repeal, rescind

Conjugation

Conjugation of rescindō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	rescindō	rescindis	rescindit	rescindimus	rescinditis	rescindunt
	imperfect	rescindēbam	rescindēbās	rescindēbat	rescindēbāmus	rescindēbātis	rescindēbant
	future	rescindam	rescindēs	rescindet	rescindēmus	rescindētis	rescindent
	perfect	rescidī	rescidistī	rescidit	rescidimus	rescidistis	rescidērunt, rescidēre
	pluperfect	rescideram	resciderās	resciderat	resciderāmus	resciderātis	resciderant
	future perfect	resciderō	rescideris	resciderit	resciderimus	rescideritis	resciderint
passive	present	rescindor	rescinderis, rescindere	rescinditur	rescindimur	rescindiminī	rescinduntur
	imperfect	rescindēbar	rescindēbāris, rescindēbāre	rescindēbātur	rescindēbāmur	rescindēbāminī	rescindēbantur
	future	rescindar	rescindēris, rescindēre	rescindētur	rescindēmur	rescindēminī	rescindentur
	perfect	rescissus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	rescissus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	rescissus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	rescindam	rescindās	rescindat	rescindāmus	rescindātis	rescindant
	imperfect	rescinderem	rescinderēs	rescinderet	rescinderēmus	rescinderētis	rescinderent
	perfect	resciderim	resciderīs	resciderit	resciderīmus	resciderītis	resciderint
	pluperfect	rescidissem	rescidissēs	rescidisset	rescidissēmus	rescidissētis	rescidissent
passive	present	rescindar	rescindāris, rescindāre	rescindātur	rescindāmur	rescindāminī	rescindantur
	imperfect	rescinderer	rescinderēris, rescinderēre	rescinderētur	rescinderēmur	rescinderēminī	rescinderentur
	perfect	rescissus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	rescissus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	rescinde	—	—	rescindite	—
	future	—	rescinditō	rescinditō	—	rescinditōte	rescinduntō
passive	present	—	rescindere	—	—	rescindiminī	—
	future	—	rescinditor	rescinditor	—	—	rescinduntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		rescindere	rescidisse	rescissūrum esse	rescindī	rescissum esse	rescissum īrī
participles		rescindēns	—	rescissūrus	—	rescissus	rescindendus, rescindundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		rescindendī	rescindendō	rescindendum	rescindendō	rescissum	rescissū

Synonyms

• (annul): abrogō

Derived terms

Derived terms

• rescindēns
• rescissiō
• rescissōrius
• rescissus

Related terms

Related terms

• abscindō
• circumscindō
• cōnscindō
• dēscindō
• dīscindō
• exscindō
• interscindō
• perscindō
• praescindō
• prōscindō
• scindō

Descendants

• Catalan: rescindir
• English: rescind
• French: rescinder
• Italian: rescindere
• Portuguese: rescindir
• Spanish: rescindir

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^[1], 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

1. first-person singular present indicative of rescindir

Spanish

Verb

rescindo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rescindir