excidium

Latin

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

• exscidium

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ekˈski.di.um/, [ɛkˈs̠kɪd̪iʊ̃ˑ]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈʃi.di.um/, [ekˈʃiːd̪ium]

Noun

excidium n (genitive excidiī or excidī); second declension

1. demolition, destruction (especially military)

   Synonyms: dēstrūctiō, lētum, ruīna, excidiō, dēmōlītiō, vāstātiō, devāstātiō, perniciēs, pestis, perditiō, exitium

2. massacre, slaughter, killing

   Synonyms: occīsiō, lētum, homicīdium, iugulum, nex

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”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈek.ski.doː/, [ˈɛks̠kɪd̪oː]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈek.ʃi.do/, [ˈɛkʃid̪o]

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.