disfacio

Latin

Alternative forms
  • diffaciō, deffaciō, defaciō

Etymology

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

Verb

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

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

Descendants

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