distractio

Latin

Etymology

From distrahō (“to drag apart”) +‎ -tiō.

Noun

distractiō f (genitive distractiōnis); third declension

1. A dragging apart; a pulling away; an act of separating or dividing
2. (figuratively) Something that causes people to turn away from each other or their activity; discord; a distraction

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	distractiō	distractiōnēs
genitive	distractiōnis	distractiōnum
dative	distractiōnī	distractiōnibus
accusative	distractiōnem	distractiōnēs
ablative	distractiōne	distractiōnibus
vocative	distractiō	distractiōnēs

Descendants

• → Asturian: distraición
• → Catalan: distracció
• → Galician: distracción
• → Italian: distrazione
• → Middle French: distraction
  • French: distraction
    • → Romanian: distracție
  • → English: distraction
• → Occitan: distraccion
• → Piedmontese: distrassion
• → Portuguese: distração
• → Spanish: distracción

References

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