excidium
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Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /eksˈki.di.um/, [ɛks̠ˈkɪd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eksˈt͡ʃi.di.um/, [eksˈt͡ʃiːd̪ium]
Etymology 1
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.
Alternative forms
- exscidium
Noun
excidium n (genitive excidiī or excidī); second declension
- demolition, destruction (especially military), ruin
- massacre, slaughter, killing
- Synonyms: occīsiō, lētum, homicīdium, nex, occīdiō
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Etymology 2
From excidō + -ium, from cadō (“I fall”).
Noun
excidium n (genitive excidiī or excidī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “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 (2003-2024), 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.
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