Italian

Verb

scindo

1. first-person singular present indicative of scindere

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *skindō, from Proto-Indo-European *skinédti ~ *skindénti ‎(“to split, to dissect”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek σχίζω ‎(skhízō).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskin.doː/, [ˈskɪn.doː]

Verb

scindō ‎(present infinitive scindere, perfect active scidī, supine scissum); third conjugation

1. I cut, tear, rend or break asunder; carve; split, divide or separate by force.
2. I tear off one's travelling cloak; urge or press one to stay.
3. I part, separate, divide.
4. I destroy.
5. I distract, agitate, disturb.

Inflection

Note that the perfect active indicative can be reduplicated to form scicidī.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Catalan: escindir
• French: scinder
• Italian: scindere
• Portuguese: cindir
• Spanish: escindir

References

• scindo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scindo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “scindo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.