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delevit

delevit is a Latin form of deleo, meaning “destroy, wipe out; erase”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 131: … hementioribus aut immoderatis tempestatibus aut nimio calore aut intolerabili frigore hominibus nocuit, urbis delevit, fruges perdidit, quorum nihil pernicii causa divino consilio sed vi ipsa et magnitudine rerum factum putamus …

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 3.1: … tura Macedoniam sortitus fugitiuos, residuam Spartaci et Catilinae manum, Thuringum agrum tenentis in itinere deleuit, negotio sibi in senatu extra ordinem dato.

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.