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Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
frustra
- inflection of frustrar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
French
Pronunciation
Verb
frustra
- third-person singular past historic of frustrer
Galician
Verb
frustra
- inflection of frustrar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Latinism, from Latin frūstrā.
Adverb
frustra
- in vain, uselessly
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
frustra
- inflection of frustrare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Latin
Etymology
Adverb from *frusterus, for *frudterus/ *fruditerus, from fraus (“harm, injury”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
frūstrā (not comparable)
- in deception, in error
- without effect, to no purpose, without cause, uselessly, in vain, for nothing
- Synonyms: nēquīquam, īnfēlīciter, supervacuō, incassum, in cassum
Derived terms
See also
References
- “frustra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “frustra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- frustra 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)
- frustra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to lose one's labour: operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere
Portuguese
Verb
frustra
- inflection of frustrar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French frustrer, from Latin frustrari.
Verb
a frustra (third-person singular present frustrează, past participle frustrat) 1st conjugation
- to frustrate
Conjugation
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɾustɾa/
- Rhymes: -ustɾa
- Syllabification: frus‧tra
Verb
frustra
- inflection of frustrar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative