scindo
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. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...pepugi", "spondeo, spepondi" dixerunt. Praeterea inveni a verbo "scindo" simili ratione non "sciderat", sed "sciciderat" dictum esse..."VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...viderim, tantum testimonium dicam? mirum hercules, si scindo vestes, nudo corpus, ignes, flagella deposco! insaniat necesse est pater..."