proscindo Latin · revision 10105

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *skeyd-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [proːsˈkɪn.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [proʃˈʃin.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prōscindō''' (present infinitive prōscindere, perfect active prōscidī, supine prōscissum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prō-|scindō|t2=to cut, split]], and the TLL compares Sanskrit ⟨pra-chid-⟩ in the same sense.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨scindō⟩ to [[ine-pro|*ski-n-d-|t=to split, tear off]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is Plautus, of ploughing.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to break up the surface of land, plough unbroken or fallow ground for the first time; to slit, gash, as in Apuleius; and figuratively, from Ovid, to flay with words, castigate, revile.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan in its general sense “to tear open, cleave”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of ploughing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of verbal attack.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of gashing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|plough]] (unbroken land).^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # To slit, [[m|en|gash]], cleave.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To [[m|en|castigate]], revile.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[proscissiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[scindō]]

+ * [[cōnscindō]]

+ * [[rescindō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}