"extermination" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: en-us-extermination.ogg [US] Forms: exterminations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|extermination}} Middle French extermination, {{der|en|EL.|exterminātiō}} Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} extermination (countable and uncountable, plural exterminations)
  1. The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (total destruction): excision Translations (the act of exterminating): إبادة (ʔibāda) [feminine] (Arabic), ոչնչացում (očʻnčʻacʻum) (Armenian), udrydning [common-gender] (Danish), extermination [feminine] (French), Ausrottung [feminine] (German), Vernichtung [feminine] (German), השמדה [feminine] (Hebrew), sterminazione [feminine] (Italian), sterminio [masculine] (Italian), eksterminasion (Ladino), eksterminio (Ladino), eksterminacja [feminine] (Polish), exterminação [feminine] (Portuguese), extermínio [masculine] (Portuguese), exterminare [feminine] (Romanian), exterminațiune [feminine] (Romanian), уничтоже́ние (uničtožénije) (Russian), истребле́ние (istreblénije) (Russian), exterminio [masculine] (Spanish), exterminación [feminine] (Spanish), erradicación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-extermination-en-noun-fUxgIL4a Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 78 22 Disambiguation of 'total destruction': 60 40 Disambiguation of 'the act of exterminating': 100 0
  2. Elimination. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-extermination-en-noun-Dk7Y0AaK
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: extermination camp

Noun [French]

IPA: /ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.na.sjɔ̃/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-extermination.wav Forms: exterminations [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiōnem. By surface analysis, exterminer + -ation. Etymology templates: {{lbor|fr|EL.|exterminātiō|exterminātiōnem}} Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiōnem, {{surf|fr|exterminer|-ation}} By surface analysis, exterminer + -ation Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} extermination f (plural exterminations)
  1. extermination Wikipedia link: fr:extermination Tags: feminine Derived forms: camp d’extermination
    Sense id: en-extermination-fr-noun-HT8b8-Jy Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, French terms suffixed with -ation

Inflected forms

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    },
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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 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.

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