English → Latin
“destroyer” in Latin
perdōto destroy, ruin, wreck; to waste, squander; to have no more, to be deprived ofcorruptorcorrupter, misleader, seducer, bribercorruptēlaseduction, corruption, briberypestisdisease, plague, pestilence, infection; a pest; destruction, ruin, deathperniciēsruin, destruction; disaster, calamity; bane, pestcōnfectormaker, preparer; consumer, destroyer, slayersubversoroverturner, overthrower, subvertervāstōto devastate, destroy, ravage, lay wastepopulorto lay waste, ravage or devastate, destroy or ruin; to plunder or pillageinterfectorkiller, murderer, slayer; destroyer
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
destroyer
eversor alicujus rei (overthrower; e.g., urbis, imperii): exstinctor alicujus rei (e.g., conjurationis): perditor (one who ruins anything; e.g., reipublicae): corruptor: corruptela (in a moral sense): pestis, pernicies (the bane of anything; its ruin): confector: consumtor (consumtor rare; Cic.; e.g., ignis omnium confector et consumtor, also confectorferarum, Suet.): subversor (e.g., legum; opposed to auctor, Tac.): vastator: populator (who lays a country waste). (The words are found in this connection and order.) populator eversorque: interfector, and (only once; Plaut.) occisor alicujus, percussor calicujus (the person who slays another; ☞ peremtor, interemtor, late): cf., destructor very late. To be the destroyer of anybody, exitio esse alicui (his ruin).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for destroyer?
- The usual Latin words for “destroyer” are perdō, corruptor, corruptēla; also pestis, perniciēs, cōnfector. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.