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Latin
Etymology
From interneco (“to kill, destroy”) + -iō.
Noun
interneciō f (genitive interneciōnis); third declension
- massacre, slaughter, carnage
- destruction, extermination
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.13:
- Quare ne committeret ut is locus ubi constitissent ex calamitate populi Romani et internecione exercitus nomen caperet aut memoriam proderet.
- Wherefore let him not bring it to pass that the place where they were standing should acquire a name from the disaster of the Roman people and the destruction of their army or transmit the remembrance .
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “internecio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “internecio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- internecio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to absolutely annihilate the enemy: hostes ad internecionem caedere, delere (Liv. 9. 26)
- to completely annihilate a nation: gentem ad internecionem redigere or adducere (B. G. 2. 28)