scinde
Dictionary entries
- Entry →scindo, scindere, scicidi, scisus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Whitaker
- Age:
- Early
tear, rend, cut to pieces; tear (clothes/hair) in rage/grief/despair;; tear, split, divide; rend, cut to pieces; tear in rage/grief/despair;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Satura VII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...quanti doceat uel Pollio quanti lautorum pueros, artem scindes Theodori. balnea sescentis et pluris porticus in qua gestetur..."Liber IX
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...grammaticis rhetoribusque mihi? Frange leves calamos et scinde, Thalia, libellos, si dare sutori calceus ista potest. 10 LXXIV..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from ACHILLEID
"...scelus! en fluxae veniunt in pectora vestes. scinde, puer, scinde et timidae ne cede parenti. ei mihi raptus..."