scindo
Italian edit
Verb edit
scindo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *skindō, from Proto-Indo-European *skinédti ~ *skindénti (“to split, to dissect”). Cognate with Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskin.doː/, [ˈs̠kɪn̪d̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈʃin.do/, [ˈʃin̪d̪o]
Verb edit
scindō (present infinitive scindere, perfect active scidī, supine scissum); third conjugation
- to cut, tear
- Synonym: dīripiō
- to rend or break asunder; carve; split, divide or separate by force
- to tear off one's travelling cloak; urge or press one to stay
- to part, separate, divide
- to destroy
- to distract, agitate, disturb
Conjugation edit
Note that the perfect active indicative can be reduplicated to form scicidī.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: escindir
- French: scinder
- Italian: scindere
- Portuguese: cindir
- Romanian: scinda
- Spanish: escindir
References edit
- “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.