exterminium
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From exterminō (“drive away, expel, destroy”) + -ium.
Noun
[edit]exterminium n (genitive exterminiī or exterminī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | exterminium | exterminia |
| genitive | exterminiī exterminī1 |
exterminiōrum |
| dative | exterminiō | exterminiīs |
| accusative | exterminium | exterminia |
| ablative | exterminiō | exterminiīs |
| vocative | exterminium | exterminia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: extermini
- Italian: sterminio
- Portuguese: extermínio
- Spanish: exterminio
References
[edit]- “exterminium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- exterminium 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)
- exterminium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.