Latin

Verb

abiciō ‎(present infinitive abicere, perfect active abiēcī, supine abiectum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. I throw or hurl down or away, cast or push away or aside.
2. I give up, abandon; expose; discard.
3. I humble, degrade, reduce, lower, cast down.
4. I overthrow, vanquish.
5. I sell cheaply, undervalue; waste; degrade, belittle.
6. (with se) I throw myself on the ground; throw myself away, degrade myself, give up in despair.
7. (of weapons) I discharge, fling, hurl, cast, throw.

Inflection

Synonyms

• (give up, abandon): dēdō, dēplōrō, dēstituō, dīmittō, prōdō
• (overthrow, vanquish): convellō, corruō, dēleō, dīruō, ēruō, ēvertō, opprimō, pervertō, prōflīgō, prōruō, prōsternō, subvertō, superobruō
• (reduce): abdūcō, attenuō
• (waste): comedō

Antonyms

• (reduce): amplificō, augeō
• (waste): salvō, servō

Derived terms

• abiectē
• abiectiō
• abiectus

Related terms

Descendants

• English: abject

References

• abicio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abicio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “abicio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to throw oneself at some one's feet: ad pedes alicuius se proicere, se abicere, procumbere, se prosternere
    
  • to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)
    
  • to let a plan fall through: consilium abicere or deponere
    
  • to picture to oneself again: memoriam alicuius rei repraesentare (opp. memoriam alicuius rei deponere, abicere)
    
  • to banish grief: dolorem abicere, deponere, depellere
    
  • to banish one's fears: abicere, omittere timorem
    
  • to give up hoping: spem abicere, deponere
    
  • to be quite insensible to all feelings of humanity: omnem humanitatem exuisse, abiecisse (Lig. 5. 14)
    
  • to throw away one's arms: arma abicere