distractio

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Latin

Etymology

From distrahō (“to drag apart”) +‎ -tiō.

Noun

distractiō f (genitive distractiōnis); third declension

  1. A dragging apart; a pulling away; an act of separating or dividing
  2. (figuratively) Something that causes people to turn away from each other or their activity; discord; a distraction

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative distractiō distractiōnēs
genitive distractiōnis distractiōnum
dative distractiōnī distractiōnibus
accusative distractiōnem distractiōnēs
ablative distractiōne distractiōnibus
vocative distractiō distractiōnēs

Descendants

References

  • “distractio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “distractio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • distractio 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)
  • distractio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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