excidium

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛksˈkɪ.di.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eksˈt͡ʃiː.di.um] === Etymology 1 === From exscindō (“I annihilate, extirpate”) +‎ -ium, from scindō (“I rend, destroy”), compare discidium (“disagreement, discord”). Sometimes construed by folk-etymology as from excīdō (“I cut out, destroy”) +‎ -ium. ==== Alternative forms ==== exscidium ==== Noun ==== excidium n (genitive excidiī or excidī); second declension demolition, destruction (especially military), ruin Synonyms: dēstrūctiō, lētum, ruīna, excidiō, dēmōlītiō, vāstātiō, devāstātiō, perniciēs, pestis, perditiō, exitium De Excidio Britanniae ― On the Ruin of Britain massacre, slaughter, killing Synonyms: occīsiō, lētum, homicīdium, nex, occīdiō ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === Etymology 2 === From excidō +‎ -ium, from cadō (“I fall”). ==== Noun ==== excidium n (genitive excidiī or excidī); second declension the setting of the sun ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “excidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “excidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers excidium in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication "excidium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “excidium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.