conscindo Latin · revision 10218

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnscindō''' (present infinitive cōnscindere, perfect active cōnscidī, supine cōnscissum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|scindō|t2=to cut, split]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨scindō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*ski-n-d-e/o-]], [[ine-pro|*ski-n-d-|t=to split, tear off]], cognate with [[sa|छिनत्ति|tr=chinátti|t=splits]] and [[grc|σχίζω|tr=skhízō|t=to split]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is Plautus, of tearing a cloak.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to tear to pieces, as of a cloak in Plautus and clothes in Terence, and in Sallust to cut down, slaughter people, also figuratively.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it very rare.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to rend, tear, split.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of tearing a cloak.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of clothes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust uses it of slaughter.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To tear to pieces, [[m|en|rend]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To cut to pieces, [[m|en|slaughter]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cōnscissiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[scindō]]

+ * [[rescindō]]

+ * [[discindō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}