deleo

Etymology
Traditionally taken as a, originally the perfect tense of , from. However, de Vaan is skeptical of the derivation due to the lack of concurrent attestation of with  and  (all attestations of  come later), and prefers Meiser's derivation from a causative, from  + , comparing 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Possibly also related to 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to destroy, raze, annihilate
 * 2) * 234 - 149  — Cato the Elder
 * "la"

- Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam


 * 1) to finish, terminate, put an end to
 * 2) to delete (e.g. Ecclesiastical: from the book of life)