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caladium

EnglishMerriam-Webster Dictionary

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Examples

//a clear and concise account of the accident
//a concise article on violence in the media that manages to say more than most books on the subject

First Known Use

circa 1590, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology

NOTE: A laryngealist Indo-European reconstruction for caedere would be *kh₂ei̯d-, which has no certain correspondents. Armenian xaytʼem "to sting, bite" has been compared, as well as Old High German heia, glossing Latin aries "battering ram" (Middle High German hei, heie with the same sense, Middle Dutch heie "pile driver"), though the latter would assume that the *d/*d^h- is a root extension. Moreover, if heie is the outcome of Germanic *xai̯

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Examples

//a clear and concise account of the accident
//a concise article on violence in the media that manages to say more than most books on the subject

First Known Use

circa 1590, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology

borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French concis, borrowed from Latin concīsus "(of a speech, expression) broken off, cut short, terse," from past participle of concīdere "to cut up, break up, slaughter, chop to pieces," from con- con- + caedere "to strike, beat, kill, fell (trees, etc.), cut off or through," of uncertain origin
NOTE: A laryngealist Indo-European reconstruction for caedere would be *kh₂ei̯d-, which has no certain correspondents. Armenian xaytʼem "to sting, bite" has been compared, as well as Old High German heia, glossing Latin aries "battering ram" (Middle High German hei, heie with the same sense, Middle Dutch heie "pile driver"), though the latter would assume that the *d/*d^h- is a root extension. Moreover, if heie is the outcome of Germanic *xai̯