The story
- Latin · derived fromdēstruō
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*destrugō
- Old French · derived fromdestruire
- Middle English · inherited fromdestroyen
- English todaydestroy
From Middle English destroyen, from Old French destruire, Vulgar Latin *destrugō, from Classical Latin dēstruō, from dē- (“un-, de-”) + struō (“to build”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.