abscido
Latin
Alternative forms
- abcīdō (potentially erroneous)
Etymology
From ab- (“away from”) + caedō (“cut, fell; strike; kill”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /abˈskiː.doː/, [äpˈs̠kiːd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈʃi.do/, [äbˈʃiːd̪o]
Verb
abscīdō (present infinitive abscīdere, perfect active abscīdī, supine abscīsum); third conjugation
- I cut off (with an instrument), cut short.
- (medicine) I amputate.
- (figuratively) I deprive (of), cut off, detract.
- (figuratively) I banish, forbid, expel; destroy (hope).
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Descendants
- → English: abscise
See also
References
- “abscido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abscido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abscido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.