Latin

Verb

percutiō ‎(present infinitive percutere, perfect active percussī, supine percussum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. I strike, beat
2. I make an impression on the mind, touch, please, delight, astonish, shock
3. I pierce, thrust, or punch through, kill

Inflection

Derived terms

• percussiō

Descendants

• French: percuter
• Portuguese: percutir
• Spanish: percutir, percudir
• English: percussion
• Russian: перкуссия ‎(perkussija)

References

• percutio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• percutio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “percutio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be struck by lightning: de caelo tangi, percuti
    
  • to beat one's brow: frontem ferire, percutere
    
  • to execute a person, cut off his head: securi percutere, ferire aliquem
    
  • the battering-ram strikes the wall: aries murum attingit, percutit
    
  • to charge, ram a boat: navem rostro percutere