scindo
Italian
Verb
scindo
- first-person singular present indicative of scindere
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *skindō, from Proto-Indo-European *skinédti ~ *skindénti (“to split, to dissect”).
Cognate with Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskin.doː/, [ˈskɪn.doː]
Verb
scindō (present infinitive scindere, perfect active scidī, supine scissum); third conjugation
- I cut, tear, rend or break asunder; carve; split, divide or separate by force.
- I tear off one's travelling cloak; urge or press one to stay.
- I part, separate, divide.
- I destroy.
- I distract, agitate, disturb.
Inflection
Note that the perfect active indicative can be reduplicated to form scicidī.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- 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
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