excidium

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛksˈkɪ.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eksˈt͡ʃiː.d̪i.um]

From exscindō (“I annihilate, extirpate”) +‎ -ium, from scindō (“I rend, destroy”), compare discidium (“disagreement, discord”). Sometimes construed by folk-etymology as from excīdō (“I cut out, destroy”) +‎ -ium.

• exscidium

excidium n (genitive excidiī or excidī); second declension

1. demolition, destruction (especially military), ruin

   Synonyms: dēstrūctiō, lētum, ruīna, excidiō, dēmōlītiō, vāstātiō, devāstātiō, perniciēs, pestis, perditiō, exitium

   De Excidio Britanniae ― On the Ruin of Britain

2. massacre, slaughter, killing

   Synonyms: occīsiō, lētum, homicīdium, nex, occīdiō

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

From excidō +‎ -ium, from cadō (“I fall”).

excidium n (genitive excidiī or excidī); second declension

1. the setting of the sun

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “excidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “excidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• excidium in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• "excidium", 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)
• excidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.