seiungo
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From sē- (privative prefix) + iungō (“join”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [seːˈjʊŋ.ɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [seˈjuŋ.ɡo]
Verb
sēiungō (present infinitive sēiungere, perfect active sēiūnxī, supine sēiūnctum); third conjugation
- to separate, sever or disunite
- c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 4.29:
- Sed in animo tantum modo cogitatione possumus morbum ab aegrotatione seiungere, vitiositas autem est habitus aut adfectio in tota vita inconstans et a se ipsa dissentiens.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Sed in animo tantum modo cogitatione possumus morbum ab aegrotatione seiungere, vitiositas autem est habitus aut adfectio in tota vita inconstans et a se ipsa dissentiens.
- to exclude
Conjugation
Conjugation of sēiungō (third conjugation)
Descendants
- English: sejoin
References
- “sejungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “seiungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers