scindo

Italian

Verb

scindo

  1. 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

    Verb

    scindō (present infinitive scindere, perfect active scidī or scicidī, supine scissum); third conjugation

    1. to cut, tear
      Synonym: dīripiō
    2. to rend or break asunder; carve; split, divide or separate by force
      Synonyms: dīscindō, carpō, findō, discerpō, distineō, discīdō, incīdō, intercīdō, distrahō
      Antonyms: cōgō, congerō, coniungō, contrahō
    3. to tear off one's travelling cloak; urge or press one to stay
    4. to part, separate, divide
    5. to destroy
    6. to distract, agitate, disturb

    Conjugation

    Note that the perfect stem can be reduplicated, as in scicidī.

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Catalan: escindir
    • French: scinder
    • Italian: scindere
    • Portuguese: cindir
    • Romanian: scinda
    • Spanish: escindir
    • English: exscind

    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.