abscedo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /abˈskeː.doː/, [äpˈs̠keːd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈʃe.do/, [äbˈʃɛːd̪o]
Verb
abscēdō (present infinitive abscēdere, perfect active abscessī, supine abscessum); third conjugation
- to go off or away, depart
- to disappear, withdraw
- to recede, retreat
- (military) to withdraw (from combat, a siege); march off, depart, retire
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:
- Q. Fuluio Ap. Claudio, prioris anni consulibus, prorogatum imperium est atque exercitus quos habebant decreti, adiectumque ne a Capua quam obsidebant abscederent priusquam expugnassent.
- The military authority of Quintus Fulvius and Appius Claudius, consuls of the previous year, was extended and the armies which they had were decided upon, and it was added as a proviso that they should not withdraw from Capua, which they were besieging, until they conquered it.
- Q. Fuluio Ap. Claudio, prioris anni consulibus, prorogatum imperium est atque exercitus quos habebant decreti, adiectumque ne a Capua quam obsidebant abscederent priusquam expugnassent.
- (figuratively) to leave off, desist
Conjugation
Descendants
- → English: abscess
References
- “abscedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abscedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abscedo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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