interitus

Latin

Noun

interitus m (genitive interitūs); fourth declension

1. overthrow, fall, annihilation, ruin, destruction, dissolution

   Synonyms: exstīnctiō, perniciēs, pestis, clādēs, vulnus, incommoditās, calamitās, cāsus, īnfortūnium, exitium

2. extinction

   Synonym: exstīnctiō

3. death

   Synonyms: mors, fūnus, exitus, perniciēs, fātum, somnus, fīnis, sopor

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	interitus	interitūs
genitive	interitūs	interituum
dative	interituī	interitibus
accusative	interitum	interitūs
ablative	interitū	interitibus
vocative	interitus	interitūs

Related terms

• intereo

References

• “interitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “interitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• interitus 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)
• interitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to rescue from destruction: ab exitio, ab interitu aliquem vindicare