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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Terence|origins=ine-pro *skeyd-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [rɛsˈkɪn.doː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [reʃˈʃin.do]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''rescindō''' (present infinitive rescindere, perfect active rescidī, supine rescissum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|re-|scindō|t2=to cut, split]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨scindō⟩ to [[ine-pro|*ski-n-d-|t=to split, tear off]], cognate with [[grc|σχίζω|tr=skhízō|t=to split]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is Terence, of revoking.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Terence 190–159 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to cut away, hew down, as of a rampart with sickles, and of structures in Cicero; to break or split open, as in Virgil; and in Terence to cancel, revoke, annul what was decreed, rescind.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to annul, repeal.^(Stelten 1995) English ''rescind'' (1630s) is from it, and it survives as French ''rescinder'' and Spanish ''rescindir''.^(Etymonline)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of revoking.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of cutting away.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of breaking open.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1630s – English ''rescind'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To cut away, hew down.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # To break open.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|annul]], [[m|en|revoke]], [[m|en|rescind]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[rescissiō]]
+ * [[rescissōrius]]
+ * [[rescissus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[abscindō]]
+ * [[circumscindō]]
+ * [[cōnscindō]]
+ * [[dēscindō]]
+ * [[dīscindō]]
+ * [[exscindō]]
+ * [[interscindō]]
+ * [[perscindō]]
+ * [[praescindō]]
+ * [[prōscindō]]
+ * [[scindō]]
+ * [[en|rescind]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}