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Abscission (from
Latin ab- 'away', and
scindere 'to cut') is the
shedding of
various parts of an organism, such as a
plant dropping a leaf, fruit, flower...
- were not
mentioned after the
first century BCE. The name, from the verb
scindere ("to cut")
means cleaver, carver, or slasher.
Historian Marcus Junkelmann...
- sc-
spelling as they
thought (wrongly) the word was
related to the
Latin scindere (meaning "to cut"). Nevertheless, the
sithe spelling lingered and notably...
- omniscious, omniscient, prescient, science,
scienter scind-, sciss-
split Latin scindere rescind,
scissors scler- hard Gr**** σκέλλειν (skéllein), σκληρός (sklērós)...
- and
sithe became scythe (as they were
wrongly thought to come from
Latin scindere),
iland became island (as it was
wrongly thought to come from
Latin insula)...
- omniscious, omniscient, prescient, science,
scienter scind-, sciss-
split Latin scindere rescind,
scissors scler- hard Gr**** σκέλλειν (skéllein), σκληρός (sklērós)...
- che sapessi; imp. sappi!, sappia!, sappiamo!, sappiate!; pr.pt. sapente;
scindere /ˈʃindere/ "to divide, to sunder": pr. scindo, scindi, scinde, scindiamo...
- tâ (scribe) of
Hanga Hahave,
whose house "was full of
tablets and [he]
scindered them at the call of the missionaries". (This may
explain the fire damage...
