deletio

Latin

Etymology

dēlētus (“destroyed”) +‎ -tiō (“-tion”, abstract noun suffix)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈleː.ti.oː/, [d̪eːˈɫ̪eːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈlet.t͡si.o/, [d̪eˈlɛt̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

dēlētiō f (genitive dēlētiōnis); third declension

1. annihilation, destruction

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēlētiō	dēlētiōnēs
Genitive	dēlētiōnis	dēlētiōnum
Dative	dēlētiōnī	dēlētiōnibus
Accusative	dēlētiōnem	dēlētiōnēs
Ablative	dēlētiōne	dēlētiōnibus
Vocative	dēlētiō	dēlētiōnēs

Related terms

• dēlēbilis
• dēleō
• dēlētus

Descendants

• → English: deletion
• French: délétion
• Italian: delezione

References

• “deletio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• deletio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.