# accido
## Italian
### Verb

accido
* first-person singular present indicative of accidere

### Anagrams

* accodi, doccia, occida

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From ad- +‎ cadō (“fall”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈak.ki.doː/, [ˈäkːɪd̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈat.t͡ʃi.do/, [ˈätː͡ʃid̪o]

#### Verb

accidō (present infinitive accidere, perfect active accidī); third conjugation, no supine stem
* (intransitive) to fall down, upon, at or near; descend
    Synonyms: corruō, incidō, cadō, incurrō, occidō, ruō
    Antonym: orior
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.359–360:annuit, et mōtīs flōrēs cecidēre capillīs, accidere in mēnsās ut rosā missa soletShe nodded her assent and, with her hair having been shaken, flowers fell, just as a rose is wont to descend upon a table. (The goddess Flora (mythology) adorned herself with flowers; during ancient feasts, wealthy Romans sometimes delighted their guests by cascading flowers onto the banquet tables.)
* (intransitive) to happen (to), take place, occur, befall
    Synonyms: interveniō, ēveniō, obveniō, expetō, obtingō, incurrō, accēdō, incidō, intercidō, contingō, fīō

##### Derived terms

* accidēns
* accidentia

##### Related terms

* cadō
* concidō
* contingō
* dēcidō
* ēveniō
* excidō
* incidō
* intercidō
* occidō
* prōcidō
* recidō
* succidō

##### Descendants

* *ad-cad-ēscere
** Old Spanish: acaesçer, acaecer
*** Spanish: acaecer

### Etymology 2

From ad- +‎ caedō (“cut; strike”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /akˈkiː.doː/, [äkˈkiːd̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /atˈt͡ʃi.do/, [ätˈt͡ʃiːd̪o]

#### Verb

accīdō (present infinitive accīdere, perfect active accīdī, supine accīsum); third conjugation
* (transitive) to begin to cut or cut into or through; fell, cut down
* (transitive) to use up, consume, diminish
* (transitive) to impair, weaken, shatter, break down, destroy
* (reflexive, intransitive) to become corrupted, fallen into ruin

##### Synonyms

* (use up): cōnsūmō, absūmō, hauriō, exhauriō, abūtor, terō, atterō, conterō, dēterō, adedō, eneco, effundo, perago
* (diminish): diminuo, minuo
* (shatter): ferio, mulcō, tango, percutio, pello, discutio, percello, affligo, impingo, pulsō, ico, caedo, verbero
* (destroy): ruīnō, diruō, perdō, aboleō, dēstruō, dēvāstō, ēvāstō, vāstō, occidō, tollō, exscindō, sepeliō, populor, interimō, perimō, absūmō, trucīdō, impellō

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “destroy”): ēmendō, reficiō, reparō, corrigō, medeor

##### Derived terms

* accīsus

##### Related terms

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

### References

* “accido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “accido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* accido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* accido in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to come to some one's ears: ad aures alicuius (not alicui) pervenire, accidere to fall at some one's feet: ad pedes alicuius accidere if anything should happen to me; if I die: si quid (humanitus) mihi accidat or acciderit it is most fortunate that..: peropportune accidit, quod a thing has happened contrary to my expectation: aliquid mihi nec opinanti, insperanti accidit it happened miraculously: divinitus accidit