Latin

Alternative forms

• excadō Late Latin
• escadō, escaiō, eschadō Mediaeval Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈeks.ki.doː/

Verb

excidō ‎(present infinitive excidere, perfect active excidī); third conjugation, no passive

1. I fall out, from or down, tumble to the ground, collapse, break down, drop
2. I fall out or from involuntarily, slip out, escape
3. I differ from someone's opinion, disagree with, dissent
4. I am lost or forgotten, pass away, perish, disappear
5. I lose myself, fail; faint, swoon
6. I slip out or escape from memory
7. (with ablative) I am deprived of, miss, fail to obtain, forfeit, lose

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Etymology 2

From ex- +‎ caedō ‎(“cut; strike”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eksˈkiː.doː/

Verb

excīdō ‎(present infinitive excīdere, perfect active excīdī, supine excīsum); third conjugation

1. I cut or hew out, off, or down
2. I raze, demolish, lay waste, destroy
3. (figuratively) I extirpate, remove, banish
4. (with virilitas) I castrate, geld
5. (in a quarry) I cut out, hollow out, excavate

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Descendants

• English: excide, excise
• French: exciser

References

• excido in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• excido in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a thing escapes, vanishes from the memory: aliquid excidit e memoria, effluit, excidit ex animo
    
  • the recollection of a thing has been entirely lost: memoria alicuius rei excidit, abiit, abolevit
    
  • no word escaped him: nullum verbum ex ore eius excidit (or simply ei)
    
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “excido”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• “excidentia, excidere” on page 388/1 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)