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Latin
Etymology
From ad- + nihil (“nothing”) + -ō
Pronunciation
Verb
annihilō (present infinitive annihilāre, perfect active annihilāvī, supine annihilātum); first conjugation
- (Late Latin, transitive) to bring to nothing, annihilate, obliterate, destroy utterly, benothing
- (Medieval Latin, transitive) to annul, invalidate
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References
- “annihilo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- annihilo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- annichilare 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)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “annihilare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 45