deleo
See also: Deleo
Latin
Etymology
Probably a back-formation from dēlēvī, originally the perfect tense of dēlinō, from dē- + linō.[1] But confer Ancient Greek δηλέομαι (dēléomai, “to destroy, annihilate, spoil”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdeː.le.oː/, [ˈd̪eːɫ̪eoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈde.le.o/, [ˈd̪ɛːleo]
Verb
dēleō (present infinitive dēlēre, perfect active dēlēvī, supine dēlētum); second conjugation
- I destroy, raze, annihilate
- 234 - 149 B.C.E. — Cato the Elder
- Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
- Furthermore I think Carthage must be destroyed
- Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
- 234 - 149 B.C.E. — Cato the Elder
- I finish, terminate, put an end to
Conjugation
Conjugation of dēleō (second conjugation) | |||||||
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indicative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | dēleō | dēlēs | dēlet | dēlēmus | dēlētis | dēlent |
imperfect | dēlēbam | dēlēbās | dēlēbat | dēlēbāmus | dēlēbātis | dēlēbant | |
future | dēlēbō | dēlēbis | dēlēbit | dēlēbimus | dēlēbitis | dēlēbunt | |
perfect | dēlēvī | dēlēvistī | dēlēvit | dēlēvimus | dēlēvistis | dēlēvērunt, dēlēvēre | |
pluperfect | dēlēveram | dēlēverās | dēlēverat | dēlēverāmus | dēlēverātis | dēlēverant | |
future perfect | dēlēverō | dēlēveris | dēlēverit | dēlēverimus | dēlēveritis | dēlēverint | |
passive | present | dēleor | dēlēris, dēlēre | dēlētur | dēlēmur | dēlēminī | dēlentur |
imperfect | dēlēbar | dēlēbāris, dēlēbāre | dēlēbātur | dēlēbāmur | dēlēbāminī | dēlēbantur | |
future | dēlēbor | dēlēberis, dēlēbere | dēlēbitur | dēlēbimur | dēlēbiminī | dēlēbuntur | |
perfect | dēlētus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | dēlētus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
future perfect | dēlētus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | dēleam | dēleās | dēleat | dēleāmus | dēleātis | dēleant |
imperfect | dēlērem | dēlērēs | dēlēret | dēlērēmus | dēlērētis | dēlērent | |
perfect | dēlēverim | dēlēverīs | dēlēverit | dēlēverīmus | dēlēverītis | dēlēverint | |
pluperfect | dēlēvissem | dēlēvissēs | dēlēvisset | dēlēvissēmus | dēlēvissētis | dēlēvissent | |
passive | present | dēlear | dēleāris, dēleāre | dēleātur | dēleāmur | dēleāminī | dēleantur |
imperfect | dēlērer | dēlērēris, dēlērēre | dēlērētur | dēlērēmur | dēlērēminī | dēlērentur | |
perfect | dēlētus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | dēlētus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
imperative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | dēlē | — | — | dēlēte | — |
future | — | dēlētō | dēlētō | — | dēlētōte | dēlentō | |
passive | present | — | dēlēre | — | — | dēlēminī | — |
future | — | dēlētor | dēlētor | — | — | dēlentor | |
non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
infinitives | dēlēre | dēlēvisse | dēlētūrum esse | dēlērī | dēlētum esse | dēlētum īrī | |
participles | dēlēns | — | dēlētūrus | — | dēlētus | dēlendus | |
verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
dēlendī | dēlendō | dēlendum | dēlendō | dēlētum | dēlētū |
Derived terms
- dēlētus
Descendants
- Asturian: dilir
- Catalan: delir
- Old French: delir (early Old French, attested once in the tenth century)
- Portuguese: delir
- → Spanish: desleír (learned)
- → English: delete
- → Portuguese: deletar, delete
- → French: délébile
- →? Proto-West Germanic: *diligōn (see there for further descendants)
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “delete”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “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