discindo Latin · revision 33215

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *ski-n-d-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''discindō''' (present infinitive discindere, perfect active discidī, supine discissum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Silius has the syncopated pluperfect subjunctive ''discisset''.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ Manuscripts often confuse it with ''dēscendō'', and its participle with ''discīsus'' and ''discussus''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dis-|scindō|t2=to cut, tear]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|scindō]] to [[itc-pro|*skinde/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*ski-n-d-|t=to split, tear off]], a nasal present.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|छिनत्ति|tr=chinátti|t=breaks, splits]], [[grc|σχίζω|tr=skhízō|t=to split]] and [[lt|skíesti|t=to separate]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Cato,^(de Vaan 2008) who says to split a Greek willow, ''salicem Graecam discindito''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to tear apart or cut in two: Terence has tearing a garment, Cicero a whetstone cut through with a razor, Lucretius a cloud split by the wind, and Virgil purple robes torn by hand.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) A special use is tearing open a garment to bare the chest: Cicero has tearing the tunic to show the scars.^(Georges 1913) Figuratively Cicero says that such friendships should be unstitched rather than torn apart,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and Seneca calls speech divided between questioner and answerer ''discissa''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Ammianus uses it of people split into factions.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato, of splitting a willow.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of breaking off a friendship.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus, of people divided by factions.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|tear]] or cut apart, cut in two, [[m|en|split]], divide.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To tear open a garment to bare the chest.^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To break off abruptly; to interrupt, divide.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' Of persons, to divide into factions.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[discidium]]

+ * [[discissio]]

+ * [[indiscissus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[scindō]]

+ * [[cōnscindō]]

+ * [[rescindō]]

+ * [[dissuō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}