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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of abrumpō (“break off, tear, sever”), from ab (“from, away from”) + rumpō (“break, burst, tear”).
Participle
abruptus (feminine abrupta, neuter abruptum, superlative abruptissimus); first/second-declension participle
- broken off, torn, severed, having been broken off
- (by extension) broken off; precipitous, steep, abrupt
- (of an event, action or policy) cut short, broken off, having been cut short
- (by extension) broken off; broken, disconnected, abrupt
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
(all borrowed)
References
- “abruptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abruptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abruptus 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)
- abruptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.