# abdico
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [əbˈdi.ku]
* IPA: (Balearic) [əbˈdi.ko]
* IPA: (Valencia) [abˈdi.ko]

### Verb

abdico
* first-person singular present indicative of abdicar

## Galician
### Verb

abdico
* first-person singular present indicative of abdicar

## Italian
### Verb

abdico
* first-person singular present indicative of abdicare

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From ab- (“from”) +‎ dīcō (“say”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /abˈdiː.koː/, [äbˈd̪iːkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /abˈdi.ko/, [äbˈd̪iːko]

#### Verb

abdīcō (present infinitive abdīcere, perfect active abdīxī, supine abdictum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative (rare)
* (of an unfavorable omen, only once attested) to be against, disapprove of, reject, refuse, deny, forbid, disallow, condemn
    Synonyms: prohibeō, vetō
** 45 BCE, Cicero, De divinatione 1.17.31:Itaque sue inventā ad merīdiem spectāns in vīneā mediā dīcitur cōnstitisse, cumque in quattuor partīs vīneam dīvīsisset trīsque partīs avēs abdīxissent, quārtā parte, quae erat relīqua, in regiōnēs distribūta, mīrābilī magnitūdine ūvam, ut scriptum vidēmus, invēnit.So, with the sow found, he is said to have stood in the middle of the vinyard looking south, and when he divided the vinyard into four parts the birds refused three parts, and with the fourth part, which was remaining, divided into regions, he found, as we find written, a bunch of grapes of extraordinary size.
* (law) to take away by sentence, withhold a right
    Synonym: dētrahō

##### Conjugation

$^1$Old Latin.

##### Related terms

* addīcō
* benedīcō
* condīcō
* contrādīcō
* dīcō
* ēdīcō
* indīcō
* interdīcō
* maledīcō
* praedīcō
* prōdīcō
* superdīcō

### Etymology 2

From ab- (“from”) +‎ dicō (“to dedicate”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈab.di.koː/, [ˈäbd̪ɪkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈab.di.ko/, [ˈäbd̪iko]

#### Verb

abdicō (present infinitive abdicāre, perfect active abdicāvī, supine abdicātum); first conjugation
* to deny, refuse to acknowledge, reject
    Synonyms: abnegō, abnuō, dēnegō, negō, recūsō, respuō
    Antonyms: approbō, cōnfiteor, dō, permittō
* to resign, abdicate
* to abolish, renounce
* to disinherit, disown

##### Derived terms

* abdicātiō
* abdicatīvus
* abdicātrīx

##### Related terms

* abdicātīvē
* dēdicō
* dicō
* indicō
* praedicō

##### Descendants

* → Albanian: abdikoj
* → Catalan: abdicar
* → Czech: abdikovat
* → Danish: abdicere
* → English: abdicate
* → Esperanto: abdiki
** → Ido: abdikar
* → German: abdizieren
** → Dutch: abdiceren
* → Galician: abdicar
* → Italian: abdicare
* → Middle French: abdiquer
** French: abdiquer
*** → Bulgarian: абдики́рам (abdikíram)
*** → Romanian: abdica
* → Norwegian Bokmål: abdisere
* → Occitan: abdicar
* → Portuguese: abdicar
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: абдицирати
    Latin script: abdicirati
* → Slovene: abdicirati
* → Sicilian: abdicari
* → Spanish: abdicar

### References

* “abdico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “abdico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* abdico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. the omens are favourable to some one: aves (alites, oscines) addīcunt alicui (opp. abdicunt aliquid) to resign one's post (before the expiry of the term of office): abdicare se magistratu (Div. 2. 35)
* abdico in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* 2004, Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 1.

## Portuguese
### Verb

abdico
* first-person singular present indicative of abdicar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /abˈdiko/ [aβ̞ˈð̞i.ko]
* Rhymes: -iko
* Syllabification: ab‧di‧co

### Verb

abdico
* first-person singular present indicative of abdicar