scandō

From Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan”). Cognate with Sanskrit स्कुन्दते (skundate, “to jump, rise, lift”), स्कन्दति(skándati, “to leap, jump, hop, dart, spring, spurt; to assail; to copulate”), Sanskrit स्कन्ध (skandhá, “trunk, nape, shoulder; branching, scale, ordering”), Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “stumbling-block”), Sanskrit छन्दस् (chándas, “scansion, metrical aspect of verse”), Old Irishsceinnid (“to spring”), Welsh cychwynnu (“to arise, start”).

Compare Ancient Greek σκιρτάω (skirtáō, “to leap, skip, bound”), Sanskrit आस्क्र (āskra, “attacking, assaulting; united, joined”), Ancient Greekσκαρθμός (skarthmós, “leap, dance, prancing”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskan.doː/, [ˈs̠kän̪d̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskan.do/, [ˈskän̪d̪o]

Verb

scandō (present infinitive scandere, perfect active scandī, supine scānsum); third conjugation

1. (transitive, intransitive) to climb, ascend, mount [ synonyms, antonyms ▲]

   (transitive) Synonyms: levō, ēlevō, allevō, ērigō, excellō, tollō, ēvehō, efferō, surgō, ēdō

   (transitive) Antonyms: dēiciō, abiciō

2. (transitive, intransitive) to clamber [ synonyms, antonyms ▲]

   (intransitive) Synonyms: ascendō, escendō, cōnscendō, īnscendō, succēdō, ēnītor, superscandō, suprascandō, subeō, ērēpō

   (intransitive) Antonyms: dēscendō, dēcurrō

3. (Late Latin, transitive) to scan (poetry by its feet)