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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of abūtor.
Participle
abūsus (feminine abūsa, neuter abūsum); first/second-declension participle
- consumed, wasted, misused
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Noun
abūsus m (genitive abūsūs); fourth declension
- consumption
- wasting
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
References
- “abusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abusus 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)
- abusus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “abusus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “abusus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin