"spoliation" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌspəʊliˈeɪʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-spoliation.wav Forms: spoliations [plural]
Etymology: From Latin spoliātiō, from spoliāre + -tiō, from spolium (“skin, hide, fell”) + -āre. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|spoliātiō}} Latin spoliātiō, {{suf|la|spoliāre|tiō|nocat=1}} spoliāre + -tiō, {{af|la|spolium|-āre|nocat=1|t1=skin, hide, fell}} spolium (“skin, hide, fell”) + -āre Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} spoliation (countable and uncountable, plural spoliations)
  1. (archaic) The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable Synonyms: deprivation, despoliation Translations (plundering): ограбване (ograbvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), plundering (Dutch), صویغون (soygun) (Ottoman Turkish), espoliação [feminine] (Portuguese), despojo [masculine] (Spanish), expoliación (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-spoliation-en-noun-WtmiF2cZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 25 28 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 54 22 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 49 30 21 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 54 22 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 49 29 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 56 22 22 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 55 22 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations: 46 32 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 50 27 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 60 19 21 Disambiguation of 'plundering': 56 40 4
  2. Robbery or plunder in times of war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (authorized plundering): плячкосване (pljačkosvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), vrijbuiterij (Dutch)
    Sense id: en-spoliation-en-noun-O65e41ET Disambiguation of 'authorized plundering': 38 56 6
  3. (law) The intentional destruction of or tampering with (a document) in such way as to impair evidentiary effect. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law Translations (destruction of evidence): bewijsvernietiging (Dutch), Beweisvereitelung [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-spoliation-en-noun-ey0zLvk~ Topics: law Disambiguation of 'destruction of evidence': 8 6 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: writ of spoliation Related terms: despoil, despoliation, spoil, spoliate, spoliative, spoliator, spoliatory, spolium

Noun [French]

Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-spoliation.wav Forms: spoliations [plural]
Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} spoliation f (plural spoliations)
  1. spoliation Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-spoliation-fr-noun-j0YIDiMd Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.