scindebat
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. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...agmina Tyrrhus, quadrifidam quercum cuneis ut forte coactis scindebat rapta spirans immane securi. At saeva e speculis tempus..."Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...quercu mella reperta cava. nec valido quisquam terram scindebat aratro, signabat nullo limite mensor humum, non freta demisso..."