abstractus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away from”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /abˈstrak.tus/, [äpˈs̠t̪räkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈstrak.tus/, [äbˈst̪räkt̪us]

Participle

abstractus (feminine abstracta, neuter abstractum, adverb abstractiter); first/second-declension participle

1. drawn away from, having been drawn away from
2. alienated from, having been alienated from
3. (figuratively) diverted from, having been diverted from
4. (Medieval Latin, by extension) abstract (rather than concrete)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	abstractus	abstracta	abstractum		abstractī	abstractae	abstracta
genitive	abstractī	abstractae	abstractī		abstractōrum	abstractārum	abstractōrum
dative	abstractō	abstractae	abstractō		abstractīs
accusative	abstractum	abstractam	abstractum		abstractōs	abstractās	abstracta
ablative	abstractō	abstractā	abstractō		abstractīs
vocative	abstracte	abstracta	abstractum		abstractī	abstractae	abstracta

Derived terms

• abstrāctiō

Descendants

• → Albanian: abstrakt
• → Aragonese: abstracto
• → Asturian: astrautu, astractu
• → Belarusian: абстракт (abstrakt)
• → Bulgarian: абстрактен (abstrakten)
• → Catalan: abstracte
• → Czech: abstrakt
• → Danish: abstrakt
• → Dutch: abstract
  • Afrikaans: abstrak
  • → Indonesian: abstrak
• → Finnish: abstrakti
• → French: abstrait
  • → Persian: آبستره
• → Galician: abstracto
• → German: abstrakt
  • → Hungarian: absztrakt
  • → Slovene: abstrakten
• → Icelandic: abstrakt
• → Italian: astratto
• → Latvian: abstrakts
• → Luxembourgish: abstrakt
• → Middle English: abstract
  • English: abstract
    • Norwegian Bokmål: abstrakt
  • Scots: abstract
• → Norwegian Bokmål: abstrakt
  • → Northern Sami: abstrákta
• → Polish: abstrakt
• → Portuguese: abstrato
• → Romanian: abstract
• → Russian: абстракт (abstrakt)
  • → Kazakh: абстракт (abstrakt)
  • → Tajik: абстракт (abstrakt)
• → Spanish: abstracto
• → Swedish: abstrakt
• → Ukrainian: абстракт (abstrakt)

References

• “abstractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “abstractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• abstractus 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)
• abstractus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.