pernicies

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Latin

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Etymology

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From pernecō (kill, slay outright) +‎ -iēs.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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perniciēs f (genitive perniciēī); fifth declension

  1. ruin, destruction
    Synonyms: dēstrūctiō, excidium, lētum, pestis, ruīna, interitus, excidiō, dēmōlītiō, vāstātiō, devāstātiō, perditiō, exitium
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.36:
      Quod sibi Caesar denuntiaret se Haeduorum iniurias non neglecturum, neminem secum sine sua pernicie contendisse.
      As to Caesar’s threatening him that he would not overlook the wrongs of the Aedui, [he said] that no one had ever entered into a contest with him [Ariovistus] without utter ruin to himself.
  2. disaster, calamity
    Synonyms: dētrīmentum, incommodum, clādēs, incommoditās, calamitās, cāsus, vulnus, exitium
  3. bane, pest
  4. (figurative) execution, death
    Synonyms: occīsiō, mors, fūnus, interitus, fātum, exitus, somnus, fīnis, sopor, caedēs

Declension

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Fifth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative perniciēs perniciēs
Genitive perniciēī perniciērum
Dative perniciēī perniciēbus
Accusative perniciem perniciēs
Ablative perniciē perniciēbus
Vocative perniciēs perniciēs

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Italian: pernizie (semi-learned), pernicie (learned)
  • Romanian: pernicie

References

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  • pernicies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pernicies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pernicies 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 ruined, undone: in perniciem incurrere
    • to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare