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abruptus
abruptus
Latin
Participle
abruptus m (feminine abrupta, neuter abruptum); first/second declension
- 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
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | abruptus | abrupta | abruptum | abruptī | abruptae | abrupta | |
| genitive | abruptī | abruptae | abruptī | abruptōrum | abruptārum | abruptōrum | |
| dative | abruptō | 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
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Descendants
References
- 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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “abruptus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.