# occido
## Italian
### Verb

occido
* first-person singular present indicative of occidere

## Latin
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈok.ki.doː/, [ˈɔkːɪd̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈot.t͡ʃi.do/, [ˈɔtː͡ʃid̪o]

#### Verb

occidō (present infinitive occidere, perfect active occidī, supine occisum); third conjugation, no passive
* (intransitive) to fall down
    Synonyms: corruō, cadō, incidō, incurrō, accidō, ruō
    Antonym: orior
* (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.
* (intransitive) to perish, die, pass away
    Synonyms: morior, pereō, occumbō, dēfungor, intereō, dēcēdō, cadō, exspīrō, discēdō, dēficiō
* (intransitive) to be lost, undone or ruined

##### Conjugation

$^1$At least one use of the archaic "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".

##### Derived terms

* occāsiō
* occidēns
* occisus

##### Related terms

* accidō
* cadō
* concidō
* dēcidō
* excidō
* incidō
* intercidō
* prōcidō
* recidō
* succidō

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /okˈkiː.doː/, [ɔkˈkiːd̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /otˈt͡ʃi.do/, [otˈt͡ʃiːd̪o]

#### Verb

occīdō (present infinitive occīdere, perfect active occīdī, supine occīsum); third conjugation
* (transitive) to fell, cut to the ground; beat, smash, crush
* (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
* (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
* (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

##### Derived terms

* occīdiō
* occīdium
* occīsiō
* occīsor
* occīsus
* occītrīx

##### Related terms

* abscīdō
* accīdō
* caedō
* circumcīdō
* concīdō
* dēcīdō
* discīdō
* excīdō
* incīdō
* intercīdō
* percīdō
* praecīdō
* procīdō
* recīdō
* succīdō
* trānscīdō

##### Descendants

* Aromanian: utsid, utsidiri
* Catalan: occir
* French: occire
* Italian: uccidere
* Megleno-Romanian: uțid
* Neapolitan: accidere
* Norman: occi (Jersey)
* Occitan: aucire, aucir
* Old Occitan: aucir, aucire
* Old Spanish: occidir
* Romanian: ucide, ucidere
* Sardinian: bocchiere, bocchidere, occhidere, occhiere
* Sicilian: accìdiri

### References

* “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, 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