discidium

From discindō (“I tear asunder”) +‎ -ium, from dis- +‎ scindō (“I cleave, tear”); compare excidium (“military destruction”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɪsˈkɪ.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪iʃˈʃiː.d̪i.um]

discidium n (genitive discidiī or discidī); second declension

1. separation, divorce
2. discord, disagreement

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “discidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “discidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• discidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.