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diruta

diruta is a Latin form of diruo, meaning “demolish, destroy”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter or perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter or perfect passive participle ablative singular feminine.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 4.5.4: … gara, dextra Piraeus, sinistra Corinthus, quae oppida quodam tempore florentissima fuerunt, nunc prostrata et diruta ante oculos iacent. coepi egomet mecum sic cogitare: hem! nos homunculi indignamur, si quis nostrum interiit …

Ovid, Heroides 1.51: Diruta sunt aliis, uni mihi Pergama restant,

All forms of diruo (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.