internecio

Latin

Alternative forms

• interniciō, internitiō

Etymology

From interneco (“to kill, destroy”) +‎ -iō.

Noun

interneciō f (genitive interneciōnis); third declension

1. massacre, slaughter, carnage
2. destruction, extermination
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.13:

     Quare ne committeret ut is locus ubi constitissent ex calamitate populi Romani et internecione exercitus nomen caperet aut memoriam proderet.

     Wherefore let him not bring it to pass that the place where they were standing should acquire a name from the disaster of the Roman people and the destruction of their army or transmit the remembrance [of such an event to posterity].

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	interneciō	interneciōnēs
genitive	interneciōnis	interneciōnum
dative	interneciōnī	interneciōnibus
accusative	interneciōnem	interneciōnēs
ablative	interneciōne	interneciōnibus
vocative	interneciō	interneciōnēs

Related terms

• interneciēs
• internecium

References

• “internecio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “internecio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• internecio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to absolutely annihilate the enemy: hostes ad internecionem caedere, delere (Liv. 9. 26)
    
  • to completely annihilate a nation: gentem ad internecionem redigere or adducere (B. G. 2. 28)