exterminium
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From exterminō (“drive away, expel, destroy”) + -ium.
Noun[edit]
exterminium n (genitive exterminiī or exterminī); second declension
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | exterminium | exterminia |
| Genitive | exterminiī exterminī1 |
exterminiōrum |
| Dative | exterminiō | exterminiīs |
| Accusative | exterminium | exterminia |
| Ablative | exterminiō | exterminiīs |
| Vocative | exterminium | exterminia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: extermini
- Italian: sterminio
- Portuguese: extermínio
- Spanish: exterminio
References[edit]
- “exterminium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- exterminium 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)
- exterminium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.