destructio
Latin
Etymology
From dēstruō (“to destroy, ruin”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deːsˈtruːk.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d̪esˈt̪ruk.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
dēstrūctiō f (genitive dēstrūctiōnis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dēstrūctiō | dēstrūctiōnēs |
| genitive | dēstrūctiōnis | dēstrūctiōnum |
| dative | dēstrūctiōnī | dēstrūctiōnibus |
| accusative | dēstrūctiōnem | dēstrūctiōnēs |
| ablative | dēstrūctiōne | dēstrūctiōnibus |
| vocative | dēstrūctiō | dēstrūctiōnēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: destrucció
- English: destruction
- French: destruction
- Galician: destrución
- Italian: distruzione
- Occitan: destruccion
- Piedmontese: distrussion
- Portuguese: destruição
- Romanian: destrucțiune
- Russian: деструкция (destrukcija)
- Sicilian: distruzziuni
- Spanish: destrucción
References
- “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.