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Latin
Etymology
inter- + faciō (“do, make”)
For the semantic development, compare the English euphemism do away with.
Pronunciation
Verb
interficiō (present infinitive interficere, perfect active interfēcī, supine interfectum); third conjugation iō-variant
- to kill, destroy, assassinate, slay
- Synonyms: ēnecō, occīdō, interimō, cōnficiō, caedō, obtruncō, necō, percutiō, trucīdō, perimō, peragō, iugulō, sōpiō, dēiciō, absūmō, cōnsūmō, tollō
- 11th century, Bayeux Tapestry, scene 57:
HIC HAROLD⁚·REX⁚·INTERFECTVS⁚EST- Here King Harold was slain
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References
- “interficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “interficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ^ Adams, J. N. (1972) “On the Authorship of the Historia Augusta”, in Classical Quarterly, volume 22, number 1, pages 186–194