intercident

English

Etymology

Latin intercidens, intercedentis, present participle of intercidere (“to fall between”); inter (“between”) + cadere (“to fall”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)sɪdənt/

Adjective

intercident (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Falling or coming between; happening accidentally.
    • 1686, Robert Boyle, A Free Inquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
      But it is found by sad experience that she rouses herself up to make a crisis, not only upon improper and (as physicians call them) intercident days

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for intercident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Latin

Verb

intercīdent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of intercīdō
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