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incido
incido
Latin
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈin.ki.doː/, [ˈɪŋ.kɪ.doː]
Verb
incidō (present infinitive incidere, perfect active incidī, supine incāsum); third conjugation
- I fall or drop into or upon something.
- I fall upon, meet, come upon (by chance), happen on, fall in with.
- I fall upon, attack, assault.
- I fall upon, arise, occur; happen to, befall.
- I come or occur to one's mind; crop up; fall upon, light upon.
- I come or fall within, coincide.
Usage notes
Used in the following constructions: (1), (2), (4), (5) and (6) use in with the accusative.; (2) uses inter; and (1), (2), (4) and (5) use the dative.
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Etymology 2
From in- + caedō (“cut; strike”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈkiː.doː/, [ɪŋˈkiː.doː]
Verb
incīdō (present infinitive incīdere, perfect active incīdī, supine incīsum); third conjugation
- I cut or hew open, into, through, or up; dissect, slit, sever; clip.
- I make by cutting, cut.
- I cut into, carve, engrave, inscribe on something.
- (figuratively) I break off, interrupt, stop, put an end to.
- (figuratively) I cut off, cut short, take away, remove.
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References
- incido in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- incido in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “incido”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to meet, come across a person; to meet casually: incidere in aliquem
- occasions arise for..: incidunt tempora, cum
- to fall unexpectedly into some one's hands: in alicuius manus incidere
- to happen during a person's life, year of office: in aetatem alicuius, in annum incidere
- he fell ill: in morbum incidit
- to be overtaken by calamity: in calamitatem incidere
- to find oneself in a hazardous position: in pericula incidere, incurrere
- to suffer reproof; to be criticised, blamed: in vituperationem, reprehensionem cadere, incidere, venire
- to mention a thing incidentally, casually: in mentionem alicuius rei incidere
- to mention a thing incidentally, casually: mentio alicuius rei incidit
- to happen to think of..: in eam cogitationem incidere
- to be overwhelmed by a great affliction: in maximos luctus incidere
- terror, panic seizes some one: terror incidit alicui
- to cut off all hope: spem praecīdere, incidere (Liv. 2. 15)
- to talk of a subject which was then the common topic of conversation: in eum sermonem incidere, qui tum fere multis erat in ore
- the conversation turned on..: sermo incidit de aliqua re
- to get into debt: incidere in aes alienum
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(ambiguous) the epitaph: elogium in sepulcro incisum
- to meet, come across a person; to meet casually: incidere in aliquem