abscido Latin · revision 9284

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la caedō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''abscīdō''' (present infinitive abscīdere, perfect active abscīdī, supine abscīsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''apscīdō''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[abs-]] “away” and [[caedō]] “to cut”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) Lewis & Short distinguish it from [[abscindō]], to tear off.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL notes that it is rare before Livy, with one example each in Plautus, Varro and Cicero.^(TLL) The OLD's earliest citation is from Caesar, of cutting off.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to cut off, away or out, as in Caesar.^(OLD 2012) In Livy it meant to separate, cut off, and to banish from the mind, and in Quintilian to prune away superfluities.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Its participle ''abscīsus'' gave [[en|abscise]] in the 1610s, “to cut off”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it once.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of cutting off.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it figuratively.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1610s – English ''abscise'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|cut]] off, cut away.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To separate; to remove.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To banish (from the mind).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To prune away.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[abscisio]]

+ * [[abscīsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[abscīsē]]

+ * [[accīdō]]

+ * [[caedō]]

+ * [[circumcīdō]]

+ * [[concīdō]]

+ * [[dēcīdō]]

+ * [[discīdō]]

+ * [[excīdō]]

+ * [[incīdō]]

+ * [[intercīdō]]

+ * [[abscindō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}