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deleri

deleri is a Latin form of deleo, meaning “destroy, wipe out; erase”. It is the present passive infinitive.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.88.6: Fit protinus hac re audita ex castris Gallorum fuga. Quod nisi crebris subsidiis ac totius diei labore milites essent defessi, omnes hostium copiae deleri potuissent.

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 4.9.22: Deleri potuit exercitus, si quis vincere ausus esset, sed perpetua fortuna regis avertit inde hostem. Sic Granicum tot milibus equitum peditumque in ulteriore stantibus ripa superavit. sic angustis in Ciliciae callibus tantam multitudinem hostium:

All forms of deleo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.