Latin

Noun

perniciēs f ‎(genitive perniciēī); fifth declension

1. ruin
2. disaster
3. bane, pest
4. (figurative) execution, death

Inflection

Fifth declension.

References

• pernicies in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pernicies in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pernicies”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be ruined, undone: in perniciem incurrere
    
  • to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare