disfacio

Latin

Alternative forms

  • diffaciō, deffaciō, defaciō

Etymology

From dis- (un-) +‎ faciō (do, make). Attested from AD 779.[1]

Verb

disfaciō (present infinitive disfacere, perfect active disfēcī, supine disfactum); third conjugation -variant (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. to tear down (a building)
  2. to destroy
  3. to maim
  4. to hurt

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Balkano-Romance:
    • Aromanian: disfac
    • Romanian: desface
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:

References

  1. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “disfacere”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 339