rescindo

Italian

Verb

rescindo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rescindere

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From re- (back) +‎ scindō (cut, tear asunder; separate).

Pronunciation

Verb

rescindō (present infinitive rescindere, perfect active rescidī, supine rescissum); third conjugation

  1. to cut off, cut or break down or back, cut or tear open or loose
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.7:
      Provinciae toti quam maximum potest militum numerum imperat (erat omnino in Gallia ulteriore legio una), pontem, qui erat ad Genavam, iubet rescindi.
      He orders the whole Province [to furnish] as great a number of soldiers as possible, as there was in all only one legion in Further Gaul; he orders the bridge at Geneva to be broken down.
  2. (figuratively) to annul, abolish, abrogate, cancel, revoke, repeal, rescind

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Descendants

  • Catalan: rescindir
  • English: rescind
  • French: rescinder
  • Italian: rescindere
  • Portuguese: rescindir
  • Spanish: rescindir

References

  • rescindo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rescindo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rescindo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to declare a will to be null and void: testamentum rescindere
    • to break down a bridge: pontem dissolvere, rescindere, interscindere (B. G. 2. 9. 4)
    • to declare a magistrate's decisions null and void: acta rescindere, dissolvere (Phil. 13. 3. 5)
    • to rescind a decision: iudicium rescindere
    • to rescind a decision: res iudicatas rescindere (Cic. Sull. 22. 63)

Portuguese

Verb

rescindo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rescindir

Spanish

Verb

rescindo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rescindir