destructio
Latin
Etymology
Etymology tree
From dēstruō (“to destroy, ruin”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deːsˈtruːk.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [desˈtruk.t͡si.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
- → Old Catalan: destruccio, destructio
- Catalan: destrucció
- → Czech: destrukce
- → Old French: destruccion
- French: destruction
- → Romanian: destrucțiune, distrucție
- → Middle English: destruccioun
- English: destruction
- Middle Scots: destructioun, distructioun
- Scots: destruction
- French: destruction
- → Italian: distruzione
- → Old Occitan: destruction, destruccio
- Occitan: destruccion
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: destruiçon, destroiçom (calque)
- Portuguese: destruição
- → Polish: destrukcja
- → Piedmontese: distrussion
- → Russian: деструкция (destrukcija)
- → Sicilian: distruzziuni
- → Spanish: destrucción
- → Galician: destrución
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.