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Latin
Noun
interitus m (genitive interitūs); fourth declension
- overthrow, fall, annihilation, ruin, destruction, dissolution
- Synonyms: exstīnctiō, perniciēs, pestis, clādēs, vulnus, incommoditās, calamitās, cāsus, īnfortūnium, exitium
- extinction
- Synonym: exstīnctiō
- death
- Synonyms: mors, fūnus, exitus, perniciēs, fātum, somnus, fīnis, sopor
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
References
- “interitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “interitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- interitus 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)
- interitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to rescue from destruction: ab exitio, ab interitu aliquem vindicare