destruo
Latin
verb
Definitions
- I destroy, demolish, ruin.
Etymology
Affix from Latin struō (arrange, build, compose, construct, pile up, prepare, put together, I build, erect) root from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*strew-
Gloss
strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- constructible English
- constructional English
- constructionism English
- constructive English
- constructivism English
- constructivist English
- destruct English
- destructible English
- destructively English
- destructiveness English
- destructivity English
- obstruct English
- astruo Latin
- constructio Latin
- constructus Latin
- construere Latin
- construo Latin
- cōnstructiō Latin
- destructio Latin
- destructio, dēstructiōnem, dēstructiō Latin
- destructivus Latin
- dēstruō Latin
- exstruo Latin
- instrumentalis Latin
- instruo Latin
- obstructio Latin
- obstruo Latin
- strava Latin
- structura Latin
- strues Latin
- struō Latin
- индустрия Russian
- *strew- Proto-Indo-European
- *straupijaną Proto-Germanic
- *strawjaną Proto-Germanic
- *streuną Proto-Germanic
- strȳnd Old English
- misconstruen Middle English
- destructif Middle French
- *strowō Proto-Italic
- стройи Old East Slavic