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frustra

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See also: frustrá

Catalan

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frustra

  1. inflection of frustrar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

French

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frustra

  1. third-person singular past historic of frustrer

Galician

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frustra

  1. inflection of frustrar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfru.stra/
  • Rhymes: -ustra
  • Hyphenation: frù‧stra

Etymology 1

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Latinism, from Latin frūstrā.

Adverb

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frustra

  1. in vain, uselessly
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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frustra

  1. inflection of frustrare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

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Etymology

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Adverb from *frusterus, for *frudterus/ *fruditerus, from fraus (harm, injury).

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Adverb

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frūstrā (not comparable)

  1. in deception, in error
  2. without effect, to no purpose, without cause, uselessly, in vain, for nothing
    Synonyms: nēquīquam, īnfēlīciter, supervacuō, incassum, in cassum

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References

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  • frustra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • frustra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • frustra 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)
  • frustra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to lose one's labour: operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere

Portuguese

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Verb

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frustra

  1. inflection of frustrar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French frustrer, from Latin frustrari.

Verb

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a frustra (third-person singular present frustrează, past participle frustrat) 1st conjugation

  1. to frustrate

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Spanish

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾustɾa/ [ˈfɾus.t̪ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -ustɾa
  • Syllabification: frus‧tra

Verb

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frustra

  1. inflection of frustrar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative