occido

occido

1. first-person singular present indicative of occidere

From ob- (“towards; facing”) +‎ cadō (“I fall”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔk.kɪ.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔt.t͡ʃi.d̪o]

occidō (present infinitive occidere, perfect active occidī, supine occāsum); third conjugation, no passive

1. (intransitive) to fall down

   Synonyms: corruō, cadō, incidō, incurrō, accidō, ruō

   Antonym: orior

2. (intransitive, of heavenly bodies) to go down, set
   • (Can we date this quote?), Gaius Valerius Catullus, Catullus 5, line 4:

     Sōlēs occidere et redīre possunt.

     Suns are able to set and to return.

3. (intransitive) to perish, die, pass away

   Synonyms: morior, pereō, occumbō, dēfungor, intereō, dēcēdō, cadō, exspīrō, discēdō, dēficiō

4. (intransitive) to be lost, undone or ruined

¹At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

• Some Old Latin extant locutions had "sol occasus", i.e. "sunset".

From ob- (“towards; facing”) +‎ caedō (“I cut”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔkˈkiː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [otˈt͡ʃiː.d̪o]

occīdō (present infinitive occīdere, perfect active occīdī, supine occīsum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) to fell, cut to the ground; beat, smash, crush
2. (transitive) to cut off, kill, slay, slaughter

   Synonyms: necō, caedō, interficiō, trucīdō, tollō, peragō, percutiō, interimō, perimō, iugulō, obtruncō, cōnficiō, ēnecō, sōpiō, dēiciō, absūmō, cōnsūmō

3. (transitive, by extension) to plague to death, torture, torment, pester

   Synonyms: turbō, perturbō, sollicitō, agitō, angō, disturbō, ēvertō, peragō, concitō, moveō, agō, versō, ūrō

   Antonym: cōnsōlor

4. (transitive, by extension) to ruin, undo, bring about the ruin of

   Synonyms: ruīnō, diruo, aboleō, dēstruō, dēvāstō, ēvāstō, vāstō, perdō, exscindō, tollo, accido, populor, sepeliō, perimō, interimō, trucīdō, absūmō, impellō

   Antonyms: ēmendō, reficiō, reparō, corrigō, medeor

• “occidō”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “occīdō”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “occido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• occido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the sun rises, sets: sol oritur, occidit
    
  • (ambiguous) to be situate to the north-west: spectare inter occasum solis et septentriones