deletio

Latin

Etymology

dēleō +‎ -tiō (“-ing”, abstract noun suffix)

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈɫeː.ti.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪eˈlɛt̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

Noun

dēlētiō f (genitive dēlētiōnis); third declension

annihilation, destruction

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēlētiō	dēlētiōnēs
genitive	dēlētiōnis	dēlētiōnum
dative	dēlētiōnī	dēlētiōnibus
accusative	dēlētiōnem	dēlētiōnēs
ablative	dēlētiōne	dēlētiōnibus
vocative	dēlētiō	dēlētiōnēs

Related terms

Descendants

→ English: deletion
French: délétion
Italian: delezione
Spanish: deleción

References

“deletio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“deletio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.