contritio

From conterō (“grind”) +‎ -tio (abstract noun forming suffix).

contrītiō f (genitive contrītiōnis); third declension

1. grief, contrition
2. (Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) destruction, ruin
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.18.7:

     Os stultī contrītiō eius: et labia illīus ruīna animae eius.

     The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

Third-declension noun.

• “contritio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• contritio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• contritio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.