deleo
See also: Deleo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdeː.le.oː/, [ˈdeː.ɫe.oː]
Verb
dēleō (present infinitive dēlēre, perfect active dēlēvī, supine dēlētum); second conjugation
- I destroy
- 234 - 149 BCE — Cato the Elder
- Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
- Furthermore I think Carthage must be destroyed
- Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
- 234 - 149 BCE — Cato the Elder
- I finish, terminate
Inflection
Descendants
References
- deleo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- deleo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- deleo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be burned to ashes: incendio deleri, absūmi
- to blot out a reproach: maculam (conceptam) delere, eluere
- nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: memoriam eius nulla umquam delebit (obscurabit) oblivio (Fam. 2. 1)
- to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: oblivione obrui, deleri, exstingui
- to banish all feeling of prejudice from the mind: suspicionem ex animo delere
- to annihilate all religious feeling: omnem religionem tollere, delere
- to proclaim a general amnesty: omnem memoriam discordiarum oblivione sempiterna delere (Phil. 1. 1. 1)
- to trample all law under foot: ius ac fas omne delere
- to annihilate, cut up the enemy, an army: hostes, exercitum delere, concīdere
- to absolutely annihilate the enemy: hostes ad internecionem caedere, delere (Liv. 9. 26)
- to be burned to ashes: incendio deleri, absūmi
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