pernicies
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom pernecō (“kill, slay outright”) + -iēs.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /perˈni.ki.eːs/, [pɛrˈnɪkieːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /perˈni.t͡ʃi.es/, [perˈniːt͡ʃies]
Noun
editperniciēs f (genitive perniciēī); fifth declension
- ruin, destruction
- Synonyms: dēstrūctiō, excidium, lētum, pestis, ruīna, interitus, excidiō, dēmōlītiō, vāstātiō, devāstātiō, perditiō, exitium
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.36:
- Quod sibi Caesar denuntiaret se Haeduorum iniurias non neglecturum, neminem secum sine sua pernicie contendisse.
- As to Caesar’s threatening him that he would not overlook the wrongs of the Aedui, [he said] that no one had ever entered into a contest with him [Ariovistus] without utter ruin to himself.
- Quod sibi Caesar denuntiaret se Haeduorum iniurias non neglecturum, neminem secum sine sua pernicie contendisse.
- disaster, calamity
- Synonyms: dētrīmentum, incommodum, clādēs, incommoditās, calamitās, cāsus, vulnus, exitium
- bane, pest
- (figurative) execution, death
Declension
editFifth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | perniciēs | perniciēs |
Genitive | perniciēī | perniciērum |
Dative | perniciēī | perniciēbus |
Accusative | perniciem | perniciēs |
Ablative | perniciē | perniciēbus |
Vocative | perniciēs | perniciēs |
Derived terms
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editReferences
edit- “pernicies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pernicies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pernicies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be ruined, undone: in perniciem incurrere
- to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare
- to be ruined, undone: in perniciem incurrere
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- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (before)
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *neḱ-
- Latin terms suffixed with -ies (noun)
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- Latin feminine nouns in the fifth declension
- Latin feminine nouns
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