præcis
Danish
/prɛˈsiːˀs/
adj
Definitions
- precise, exact
Etymology
Derived from French précis (summary) derived from Latin praecīsus (shortened, cut off), caedō (cut, strike, hew, I cut, kill, fall, fell, I cut down).
Origin
Latin
caedō
Gloss
cut, strike, hew, I cut, kill, fall, fell, I cut down
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
殺
Emoji
✂️ ✂️ 🎬️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- précis English
- -cida Latin
- abscido Latin
- caedes Latin
- caedō Latin
- caesor Latin
- caesura Latin
- circumcido Latin
- discido Latin
- percido Latin
- praecido Latin
- praecisus Latin
- praecīsus Latin
- transcido Latin
- präzise German
- preciso Italian
- imprécis French
- précis French
- précisément French
- preciso Spanish, Castilian
- *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- omskjære Norwegian Bokmål
- preciso Portuguese
- precis Swedish
- precís Catalan, Valencian
- precis Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan