occido
Italian
Verb
occido
Latin
Etymology 1
From ob- (“towards; facing”) + cadō (“I fall”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈok.ki.doː/, [ˈɔkːɪd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈot.t͡ʃi.do/, [ˈɔtː͡ʃid̪o]
Verb
occidō (present infinitive occidere, perfect active occidī, supine occāsum); third conjugation, no passive
- (intransitive) I fall down
- (intransitive, of heavenly bodies) I go down, set
- Gaius Valerus Catullus, Catullus V, line 4
- Sōlēs occidere et redīre possunt
- Suns are able to set and to return.
- Sōlēs occidere et redīre possunt
- Gaius Valerus Catullus, Catullus V, line 4
- (intransitive) I perish, die, pass away
- (intransitive) I am lost, undone or ruined
Conjugation
- Some Old Latin extant locutions had "sol occasus", i.e. "sunset".
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
From ob- (“towards; facing”) + caedō (“I cut”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈok.ki.doː/, [ˈɔkːɪd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈot.t͡ʃi.do/, [ˈɔtː͡ʃid̪o]
Verb
occīdō (present infinitive occīdere, perfect active occīdī, supine occīsum); third conjugation
- I fell, cut to the ground; beat, smash, crush
- I cut off, kill, slay, slaughter
- (by extension) I plague to death, torture, torment, pester
- (by extension) I ruin, undo, bring about the ruin of
Conjugation
Derived terms
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Descendants
References
- “occidō”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “occīdō”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “occido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- occido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the sun rises, sets: sol oritur, occidit
- (ambiguous) to be situate to the north-west: spectare inter occasum solis et septentriones
- the sun rises, sets: sol oritur, occidit
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- Italian non-lemma forms
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- Latin terms prefixed with ob-
- Latin 3-syllable words
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