excidium

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Latin

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative excidium excidia
genitive excidiī
excidī1 		excidiōrum
dative excidiō excidiīs
accusative excidium excidia
ablative excidiō excidiīs
vocative excidium excidia

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

  1. the setting of the sun
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative excidium excidia
genitive excidiī
excidī1 		excidiōrum
dative excidiō excidiīs
accusative excidium excidia
ablative excidiō excidiīs
vocative excidium excidia

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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