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scando

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Latin

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Indo-European *skend- (to jump up, ascend), via Proto-Italic *skandō, either from:

    • earlier *skendō, with regular development of *e to *a after velars, from Proto-Indo-European *skénd-e-ti;[1]
    • earlier *skn̥dō, with regular development of *skn̥d- > *skand- in a preconsonantal position, secondary thematic present to aorist *skénd-t ~ *skn̥d-ént;[2]
    • or Proto-Indo-European *skₔnd-é-ti with schwa secundum, secondary thematic present to aorist *skénd-t ~ *skₔnd-ént.[3]

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    scandō (present infinitive scandere, perfect active scandī, supine scānsum); third conjugation

    1. (ambitransitive) to climb, ascend, mount
      (transitive) Synonyms: levō, ēlevō, allevō, ērigō, excellō, tollō, ēvehō, efferō, surgō, ēdō
      (transitive) Antonyms: dēiciō, abiciō
    2. (ambitransitive) to clamber
      (intransitive) Synonyms: ascendō, escendō, cōnscendō, īnscendō, succēdō, ēnītor, superscandō, suprascandō, subeō, ērēpō
      (intransitive) Antonyms: dēscendō, dēcurrō
    3. (Late Latin, transitive) to scan (poetry by its feet)

    Conjugation

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    References

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    1. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991), The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 426, 431-432
    2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “scandō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 542-3
    3. ^ Lipp, Reiner (2009), Die indogermanischen und einzelsprachlichen Palatale im Indoiranischen: Neurekonstruktion, Nuristan-Sprachen, Genese der indoarischen Retroflexe, Indoarisch von Mitanni (Indogermanische Bibliothek; 3) (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Winter, page 48

    Further reading

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    • scando”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • scando”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • scando”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Kanehiro Nishimura (2004), “Development of the Prevocalic *m̥ in Latin”, in Glotta[1], volume 80, number 1/4, →ISSN, pages 239-240