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concido
concido
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.ki.doː/
Verb
concidō (present infinitive concidere, perfect active concidī); third conjugation, no passive
- I fall down or together, tumble to the ground, collapse, break down, drop.
- I fall down lifeless in combat, I am slaughtered or slain.
- I fall down faint.
- (figuratively) I lose strength or value; I am overthrown or defeated, fail; decay, perish, waste away, go to ruin.
- (figuratively, of the wind) I subside, go down, fall.
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Etymology 2
From con- + caedō (“cut; strike”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈkiː.doː/
Verb
concīdō (present infinitive concīdere, perfect active concīdī, supine concīsum); third conjugation
- I cut up, through, away or to pieces, break up.
- (of a person's reputation) I ruin, destroy.
- I cut to pieces, beat severely, cudgel soundly, thrash.
- I cut to pieces in war, cut down, destroy, kill.
- (figuratively, of discourse) I divide minutely, dismember, render feeble.
- (figuratively, by word or deed) I strike down, ruin, destroy, annul.
- (figuratively) I confute, deceive, cheat, defraud.
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Descendants
- English: concise
References
- concido in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- concido in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “concido”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(ambiguous) credit is going down: fides (vid. sect. IX. 10, note fides has six...) concidit
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(ambiguous) credit is going down: fides (vid. sect. IX. 10, note fides has six...) concidit