scindo

Italian

Verb

scindo

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) first-person singular present indicative of scindere

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Latin

Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *skindō, from Proto-Indo-European *skinédti ~ *skindénti (“to split, to dissect”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskin.doː/, [ˈs̠kɪn̪d̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈʃin.do/, [ˈʃin̪d̪o]

Verb

1. I cut, tear, rend or break asunder; carve; split, divide or separate by force.
2. I tear off one's travelling cloak; urge or press one to stay.
3. I part, separate, divide.
4. I destroy.
5. I distract, agitate, disturb.

Inflection

Note that the perfect active indicative can be reduplicated to form scicidī. Template:la-conj-3rd

Derived terms

• abscindō
• circumscindō
• cōnscindō
• dēscindō

• dīscindō
• exscindō
• interscindō
• praescindō

• perscindō
• prōscindō
• rescindō
• scindula

• scissilis
• scissim
• scissiō
• scissus

Descendants

• Catalan: escindir
• French: scinder
• Italian: scindere
• Portuguese: cindir
• Romanian: scinda
• Spanish: escindir

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.