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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of abiciō (“throw away or down; abandon; overthrow; humble”), from ab (“from, away from”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”).
Participle
abiectus (feminine abiecta, neuter abiectum, comparative abiectior, superlative abiectissimus, adverb abiectē); first/second-declension participle
- thrown or cast aside, down or away, having been thrown away
- given up, abandoned, degraded, having been abandoned
- overthrown, having been overthrown
- (by extension) humble, low, crouched; subservient
- Synonyms: modicus, dēmissus
- (by extension) base, sordid
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “abiectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “abjectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press