Latin

Verb

dēleō ‎(present infinitive dēlēre, perfect active dēlēvī, supine dēlētum); second conjugation

1. I destroy
   • 234 - 149 BCE — Cato the Elder

     Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam

     Furthermore I think Carthage must be destroyed

2. I finish, terminate

Inflection

Descendants

• English: delete
• Portuguese: delir
• Spanish: desleír
• French: délébile

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “deleo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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)