scindebant
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;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...currente certa manu trabem scindere; nam primi cuneis scindebant fissile lignum. Non enim tecta cenationi epulum recepturae parabantur..."Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...rigor atque argutae lammina serrae (nam primi cuneis scindebant fissile lignum), tum uariae uenere artes. labor omnia uicit..."