abruptus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perfect passive participle of abrumpō (“break off, tear, sever”), from ab (“from, away from”) + rumpō (“break, burst, tear”).
Participle
[edit]abruptus (feminine abrupta, neuter abruptum, superlative abruptissimus); first/second-declension participle
- broken off, torn, severed, having been broken off
- (by extension) broken off; precipitous, steep, abrupt
- (of an event, action or policy) cut short, broken off, having been cut short
- (by extension) broken off; broken, disconnected, abrupt
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | abruptus | abrupta | abruptum | abruptī | abruptae | abrupta | |
| genitive | abruptī | abruptae | abruptī | abruptōrum | abruptārum | abruptōrum | |
| dative | abruptō | abruptae | abruptō | abruptīs | |||
| accusative | abruptum | abruptam | abruptum | abruptōs | abruptās | abrupta | |
| ablative | abruptō | abruptā | abruptō | abruptīs | |||
| vocative | abrupte | abrupta | abruptum | abruptī | abruptae | abrupta | |
- comparative: abruptior, superlative: abruptissimus
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit](all borrowed)
References
[edit]- “abruptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abruptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "abruptus", 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)
- abruptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.