destructio

Latin

Etymology

From dēstruō (“to destroy, ruin”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːsˈtruːk.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [desˈtruk.t͡si.o]

Noun

dēstrūctiō f (genitive dēstrūctiōnis); third declension

1. destruction, demolition

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

2. refutation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēstrūctiō	dēstrūctiōnēs
genitive	dēstrūctiōnis	dēstrūctiōnum
dative	dēstrūctiōnī	dēstrūctiōnibus
accusative	dēstrūctiōnem	dēstrūctiōnēs
ablative	dēstrūctiōne	dēstrūctiōnibus
vocative	dēstrūctiō	dēstrūctiōnēs

Descendants

• → Old Catalan: destruccio, destructio
  • Catalan: destrucció
• → Czech: destrukce
• → Old French: destruccion
  • French: destruction
    • → Romanian: destrucțiune, distrucție
  • → Middle English: destruccioun
    • English: destruction
    • Middle Scots: destructioun, distructioun
      • Scots: destruction
• → Italian: distruzione
• → Old Occitan: destruction, destruccio
  • Occitan: destruccion
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: destruiçon, destroiçom (calque)
  • Portuguese: destruição
• → Polish: destrukcja
• → Piedmontese: distrussion
• → Russian: деструкция (destrukcija)
• → Sicilian: distruzziuni
• → Spanish: destrucción
  • → Galician: destrución

References

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