deleo
See also: Deleo
Latin
Etymology
Possible connection with Latin lētum, linō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈdeː.le.oː/, [ˈd̪eːɫ̪eoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈde.le.o/, [ˈd̪ɛːleo]
Verb
dēleō (present infinitive dēlēre, perfect active dēlēvī, supine dēlētum); second conjugation
- I destroy
- 234 - 149 B.C.E. — Cato the Elder
- Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
- Furthermore I think Carthage must be destroyed
- Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
- 234 - 149 B.C.E. — Cato the Elder
- I finish, terminate
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “deleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “deleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- deleo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be burned to ashes: incendio deleri, absūmi
- to blot out a reproach: maculam (conceptam) delere, eluere
- nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: memoriam eius nulla umquam delebit (obscurabit) oblivio (Fam. 2. 1)
- to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: oblivione obrui, deleri, exstingui
- to banish all feeling of prejudice from the mind: suspicionem ex animo delere
- to annihilate all religious feeling: omnem religionem tollere, delere
- to proclaim a general amnesty: omnem memoriam discordiarum oblivione sempiterna delere (Phil. 1. 1. 1)
- to trample all law under foot: ius ac fas omne delere
- to annihilate, cut up the enemy, an army: hostes, exercitum delere, concīdere
- to absolutely annihilate the enemy: hostes ad internecionem caedere, delere (Liv. 9. 26)
- to be burned to ashes: incendio deleri, absūmi