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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away from”).
Pronunciation
Participle
abstractus (feminine abstracta, neuter abstractum, adverb abstractiter); first/second-declension participle
- drawn away from, having been drawn away from
- alienated from, having been alienated from
- (figuratively) diverted from, having been diverted from
- (Medieval Latin, by extension) abstract (rather than concrete)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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.