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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of hauriō (“draw, drain”).
Pronunciation
Participle
haustus (feminine hausta, neuter haustum); first/second-declension participle
- drawn, drained, having been drawn
- swallowed, absorbed, having been swallowed
- (of blood) spilled, shed, having been spilled
- devoured, consumed, exhausted, depleted, used up; engulfed; having been exhausted
- torn up, plucked out, drawn out; dug up, hollowed out; having been plucked out
- drawn, derived, borrowed, taken, having been borrowed
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Noun
haustus m (genitive haustūs); fourth declension
- The act of drawing or draining.
- The act of drinking or swallowing.
- Something which is drunk; a drink, draught.
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
References
- “haustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “haustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- haustus 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)
- haustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to slake one's thirst by a draught of cold water: sitim haustu gelidae aquae sedare