exterminium

Latin

Etymology

From exterminō (“drive away, expel, destroy”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

exterminium n (genitive exterminiī or exterminī); second declension

1. expulsion, banishment
2. destruction, extermination

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	exterminium	exterminia
Genitive	exterminiī exterminī1	exterminiōrum
Dative	exterminiō	exterminiīs
Accusative	exterminium	exterminia
Ablative	exterminiō	exterminiīs
Vocative	exterminium	exterminia

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

Descendants

• Catalan: extermini
• Italian: sterminio
• Portuguese: extermínio
• Spanish: exterminio

References

• “exterminium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• exterminium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• exterminium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.