Italian

Verb

occido

1. first-person singular present indicative of occidere

Latin

Etymology 1

From ob- ‎(“towards; facing”) +‎ cadō ‎(“I fall”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈok.ki.doː/

Verb

occidō ‎(present infinitive occidere, perfect active occīdī, supine occāsum); third conjugation

1. (intransitive) I fall down
2. (intransitive, of heavenly bodies) I go down, set
   • Gaius Valerus Catullus, Catullus V, line 4

     Soles occidere et redire possunt

     Suns are able to set and to return.

3. (intransitive) I perish, die, pass away
4. (intransitive) I am lost, undone or ruined

Inflection

Derived terms

• occāsiō
• occāsus
• occidēns

Related terms

Etymology 2

From ob- ‎(“towards; facing”) +‎ caedō ‎(“I cut”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /okˈkiː.doː/

Verb

occīdō ‎(present infinitive occīdere, perfect active occīdī, supine occīsum); third conjugation

1. I fell, cut to the ground; beat, smash, crush
2. I cut off, kill, slay, slaughter
3. (by extension) I plague to death, torture, torment, pester
4. (by extension) I ruin, undo, bring about the ruin of

Inflection

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Descendants

References

• occidō in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• occīdō in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• occido in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “occido”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the sun rises, sets: sol oritur, occidit
    
  • (ambiguous) to be situate to the north-west: spectare inter occasum solis et septentriones