abstractus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of abstrahō (draw away from).

Pronunciation

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

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Derived terms

Descendants

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
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