inter-căpēdo (noun F) : capio
* An interruption, intermission, interval, pause, respite: intercapedo, tempus interceptum, cum scilicet mora est ad capiendum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 111 Müll.: intercapedinem scribendi facere,Cic. Fam. 16, 21: molestiae,id. Fin. 1, 18: jurisdictionis,Suet. Vesp. 10; with remissio, opp. continuatio,Plin. Ep. 4, 9.—Of space (rare): inter circulos universos quid interstitii vel spatii intercapedo naturalis immiserit,Mart. Cap. 8, § 837. —In nom. sing. the word is said to have had an obscene signif., Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 4; Quint. 8, 3, 46.

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