discidium

Latin

Etymology

From discindō (“I tear asunder”) +‎ -ium, from dis- +‎ scindō (“I cleave, tear”); compare excidium (“military destruction”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɪsˈkɪ.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [diʃˈʃiː.di.um]

Noun

discidium n (genitive discidiī or discidī); second declension

1. separation, divorce
2. discord, disagreement

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	discidium	discidia
genitive	discidiī discidī1	discidiōrum
dative	discidiō	discidiīs
accusative	discidium	discidia
ablative	discidiō	discidiīs
vocative	discidium	discidia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “discidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “discidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “discidium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.