excidium

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.

• exscidium

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ekˈski.di.um/, [ɛkˈs̠kɪd̪iʊ̃ˑ]

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈʃi.di.um/, [ekˈʃiːd̪ium]

excidium n (genitive excidiī or excidī); second declension

1. demolition, destruction (especially military)

   Synonyms: dēstrūctiō, lētum, ruīna, excidiō, dēmōlītiō, vāstātiō, devāstātiō, perniciēs, pestis, perditiō, exitium

2. massacre, slaughter, killing

   Synonyms: occīsiō, lētum, homicīdium, iugulum, nex, occīdiō

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

From excidō +‎ -ium, from cadō (“I fall”).

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈek.ski.doː/, [ˈɛks̠kɪd̪oː]

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈek.ʃi.do/, [ˈɛkʃid̪o]

excidium n (genitive excidiī or excidī); second declension

1. the setting of the sun

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “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 (2003-2023) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• excidium 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)
• excidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette