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Latin
Etymology
dēmōlior + -tiō
Noun
dēmōlītiō f (genitive dēmōlītiōnis); third declension
- demolition
- Synonyms: dēstrūctiō, lētum, ruīna, excidium, vāstātiō, devāstātiō, perniciēs, exitium
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “demolitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “demolitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- demolitio 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)
- demolitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.