abdico

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əbˈdi.ku]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əbˈdi.ko]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [abˈdi.ko]

abdico

1. first-person singular present indicative of abdicar

abdico

1. first-person singular present indicative of abdicar

abdico

1. first-person singular present indicative of abdicare

From ab- (“from”) + dīcō (“say”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [abˈdiː.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [abˈdiː.ko]

abdīcō (present infinitive abdīcere, perfect active abdīxī, supine abdictum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative (rare)

1. (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.

2. (law) to take away by sentence, withhold a right

   Synonym: dētrahō

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈab.dɪ.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈab.di.ko]

abdicō (present infinitive abdicāre, perfect active abdicāvī, supine abdicātum); first conjugation

1. to deny, refuse to acknowledge, reject, repudiate, decline

   Synonyms: abnegō, abnuō, dēnegō, negō, recūsō, respuō

   Antonyms: approbō, cōnfiteor, dō, permittō

2. to resign, abdicate
3. to abolish, renounce
4. to disinherit, disown

• → 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

• “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^[1], 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• abdico, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

abdico

1. first-person singular present indicative of abdicar

• IPA^(key): /abˈdiko/ [aβ̞ˈð̞i.ko]
• Rhymes: -iko
• Syllabification: ab‧di‧co

abdico

1. first-person singular present indicative of abdicar