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The corpus record — Latin

abscissĭo

abscissĭo · f

a breaking off

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What it meant

abscissĭo — Lewis & Short

abscissĭo, ōnis, f.abscindo,

I a breaking off in the midst of a discourse; rhet. fig., Auct. ad Her. 4, 53; 4, 54: vocis, Scrib. Comp. 100.

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.