interitus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of intereō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪnˈtɛ.rɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [inˈtɛː.ri.tus]

Participle

interitus (feminine interita, neuter interitum); first/second-declension participle

1. having died, dead

Declension

First/second-declension participle.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	interitus	interita	interitum		interitī	interitae	interita
genitive	interitī	interitae	interitī		interitōrum	interitārum	interitōrum
dative	interitō	interitae	interitō		interitīs
accusative	interitum	interitam	interitum		interitōs	interitās	interita
ablative	interitō	interitā	interitō		interitīs
vocative	interite	interita	interitum		interitī	interitae	interita

Etymology 2

From intereō + -tus (forming action nouns).

Pronunciation

• interitus:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪnˈtɛ.rɪ.tʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [inˈtɛː.ri.tus]
• interitūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪnˈtɛ.rɪ.tuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [inˈtɛː.ri.tus]

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

Further reading

• “intĕrĭtus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intĕrĭtus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “interitus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “intĕrĭtus, -a, um / intĕrĭtŭs, -ūs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "interitus, -us", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to rescue from destruction: ab exitio, ab interitu aliquem vindicare