demolitio

Latin

Etymology

dēmōlior +‎ -tiō

Noun

dēmōlītiō f (genitive dēmōlītiōnis); third declension

1. demolition

   Synonyms: dēstrūctiō, lētum, ruīna, excidium, vāstātiō, devāstātiō, perniciēs, exitium

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēmōlītiō	dēmōlītiōnēs
genitive	dēmōlītiōnis	dēmōlītiōnum
dative	dēmōlītiōnī	dēmōlītiōnibus
accusative	dēmōlītiōnem	dēmōlītiōnēs
ablative	dēmōlītiōne	dēmōlītiōnibus
vocative	dēmōlītiō	dēmōlītiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: demolició
• French: démolition
• Galician: demolición
• Italian: demolizione
• Occitan: demolicion
• Portuguese: demolição
• Spanish: demolición

References

• “demolitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “demolitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• demolitio 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)
• demolitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.