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incido

  1. first-person singular present indicative of incidere

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Etymology 1

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From in- (into, to) +‎ cadō (to fall, fall down, drop).

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incidō (present infinitive incidere, perfect active incidī, future active participle incāsūrus); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle

  1. (literally)
    1. (in general) to fall or drop [with in (+ accusative) or dative ‘into or upon something’]
    2. (in particular) to fall upon, meet, come upon (by chance), happen on, fall in with [with in (+ accusative) or inter (+ accusative) or dative ‘a person or thing’]
    3. (transferred sense) to fall upon, attack, assault
      incidere in hostesto fall upon the enemy
  2. (figurative) [with in (+ accusative) or dative]
    1. (in general) to fall into any condition
      manibus (or in manus) incidereto fall under the influence (or authority) of someone
    2. to fall upon, arise, occur; to happen to, befall
    3. (in particular)
      1. to fall upon accidentally; to crop up, fall upon, light upon in thought or conversation
      2. to come or occur to one's mind
        casu in alicuius mentionem incidereto come to one’s mind by chance
      3. to fall upon, happen in a certain time
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In Late Latin, the prepositional use is sometimes replaced with a bare accusative.

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  • (antonym(s) of fall): orior
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Etymology 2

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From in- (into, to) +‎ caedō (to cut, hew, lop; to beat, strike).

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incīdō (present infinitive incīdere, perfect active incīdī, supine incīsum); third conjugation

  1. (literally, Classical Latin) to cut or hew open, into, through, or up; to dissect, slit, sever; to clip
    Synonyms: findō, scindō, dīscindō, discerpō, discīdō, carpō, intercīdō, amputō, putō
  2. (transferred sense)
  3. to cut into, carve, engrave, inscribe on something
  4. (rare) to make by cutting, cut
  5. (figurative)
  6. to break off, interrupt, stop, put an end to
  7. to cut off, cut short, take away, remove
  8. (rhetoric) to make by cutting, to cut
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  • incido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • incido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • incido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to meet, come across a person; to meet casually: incidere in aliquem
    • occasions arise for..: incidunt tempora, cum
    • to fall unexpectedly into some one's hands: in alicuius manus incidere
    • to happen during a person's life, year of office: in aetatem alicuius, in annum incidere
    • he fell ill: in morbum incidit
    • to be overtaken by calamity: in calamitatem incidere
    • to find oneself in a hazardous position: in pericula incidere, incurrere
    • to suffer reproof; to be criticised, blamed: in vituperationem, reprehensionem cadere, incidere, venire
    • to mention a thing incidentally, casually: in mentionem alicuius rei incidere
    • to mention a thing incidentally, casually: mentio alicuius rei incidit
    • to happen to think of..: in eam cogitationem incidere
    • to be overwhelmed by a great affliction: in maximos luctus incidere
    • terror, panic seizes some one: terror incidit alicui
    • to cut off all hope: spem praecīdere, incidere (Liv. 2. 15)
    • to talk of a subject which was then the common topic of conversation: in eum sermonem incidere, qui tum fere multis erat in ore
    • the conversation turned on..: sermo incidit de aliqua re
    • to get into debt: incidere in aes alienum
    • (ambiguous) the epitaph: elogium in sepulcro incisum
  • DIZIONARIO LATINO OLIVETTI

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incido

  1. first-person singular present indicative of incidir

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incido

  1. first-person singular present indicative of incidir