The corpus record — Latin

abscindo

abscindo · v. a

to tear off

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 1 · 0.47/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Historiae 2 · 0.39/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 2 · 0.27/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ab-scindo — Lewis & Short

ab-scindo, cĭdi, cissum, 3, v. a.,

I to tear off or away, to rend away (v. preced. art.).

I Lit.: tunicam a pectore abscidit, he tore the tunic down from his breast, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 1: cervicibus fractis caput abscidit, cut off, id. Phil. 11, 5.—With simple abl.: umeris abscindere vestem, Verg. A. 5, 685; with de, id. G. 2, 23: nec quidquam deus abscidit terras, torn asunder, separated, Hor. C. 1, 3, 21; cf. Verg. A. 3, 418; Ov. M. 1, 22 al.: venas, to open the veins, Tac. A. 15, 69; 16, 11.—

II Trop., to cut off, separate, divide (rare): reditus dulces, to cut off, Hor. Epod. 16, 35: inane soldo, to separate, id. S. 1, 2, 113: querelas alicujus, Val. Fl. 2, 160: jus, Dig. 28, 2, 9, § 2.

In the wild

abscisso Propertius, Elegiae 4.4.72
abscissum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.10.22
abscissa Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 10.5.19
Abscissa Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 10.4
abscinduntur Tacitus, Annales 15.p72
abscissa Vergil, Aeneid 4.590

6 of 24 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.