destructio
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From dēstruō (“to destroy, ruin”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːsˈtruːk.ti.oː/, [d̪eːs̠ˈt̪ruːkt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /desˈtruk.t͡si.o/, [d̪esˈt̪rukt̪͡s̪io]
Noun edit
dēstrūctiō f (genitive dēstrūctiōnis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dēstrūctiō | dēstrūctiōnēs |
| Genitive | dēstrūctiōnis | dēstrūctiōnum |
| Dative | dēstrūctiōnī | dēstrūctiōnibus |
| Accusative | dēstrūctiōnem | dēstrūctiōnēs |
| Ablative | dēstrūctiōne | dēstrūctiōnibus |
| Vocative | dēstrūctiō | dēstrūctiōnēs |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: destrucció
- English: destruction
- French: destruction
- Galician: destrución
- Italian: distruzione
- Occitan: destruccion
- Piedmontese: distrussion
- Portuguese: destruição
- Romanian: destrucțiune
- Russian: деструкция (destrukcija)
- Spanish: destrucción
References edit
- “destructio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- destructio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.