abscisos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →abscido, abscidere, abscidi, abscisus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
hew/cut off/away/out; fell/cut down; remove, separate/cut off/destroy, divide;; take away violently; expel/banish; destroy (hope); amputate; prune; cut short;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →abscisus, abscisa -um, abscisior -or -us, abscisissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
steep, sheer, precipitous; abrupt, curt, brusque; restricted; cut off, severed;
acc. pl. (m.)
Examples

Liber Decimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...mittit ouans; clausis ipse insultare Pelasgis tendit et abscisos sociorum ostendere uultus. interea reducem murorum e culmine Grai..."Liber XXXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...altitudine solum tuta urbs sed quod saxo undique absciso rupibus imposita est. Hae difficultates et quod haud satis..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...parantem pervicere ut absisteret: tum confossum laceratumque et absciso capite truncum corpus Sabini in Gemonias trahunt. Hic exitus..."
