abscindo Latin · revision 9414

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''abscindō''' (present infinitive abscindere, perfect active abscidī, supine abscissum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ab-]] “away” and [[scindō]] “to cut, tear”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) De Vaan traces ⟨scindō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*ski-n-d-e/o-]], from [[ine-pro|*ski-n-d-|t=to split, tear off]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short and Gaffiot cite Cicero's ''Verrines'', of tearing a tunic from someone's breast.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to tear off clothing or hair, as in Cicero and Propertius; to break or cut off; of places to separate, cut off, divide, as in Ovid; and to cut short speech, as in Valerius Flaccus.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to tear away, cut off.^(Stelten 1995) [[en|abscind]] (1650s) is from it, and its participle ''abscissa'' (''linea'') “a line cut off” gave the mathematical [[en|abscissa]] (1798).^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1798 – English ''abscissa'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To tear off; to cut off.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To separate, divide.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To cut short.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[abscissiō]]

+ * [[abscissus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[circumscindō]]

+ * [[cōnscindō]]

+ * [[dēscindō]]

+ * [[dīscindō]]

+ * [[exscindō]]

+ * [[interscindō]]

+ * [[perscindō]]

+ * [[praescindō]]

+ * [[prōscindō]]

+ * [[rescindō]]

+ * [[scindō]]

+ * [[en|abscind]]

+ * [[en|abscissa]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}