abruptus

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈbruptus/
  • Rhymes: -uptus
  • Syllabification: a‧brup‧tus

Verb

abruptus

  1. conditional of abrupti

Latin

Etymology

    Perfect passive participle of abrumpō (“break off, tear, sever”), from ab (“from, away from”) + rumpō (“break, burst, tear”).

    Participle

    abruptus (feminine abrupta, neuter abruptum, superlative abruptissimus); first/second-declension participle

    1. broken off, torn, severed, having been broken off
    2. (by extension) broken off; precipitous, steep, abrupt
    3. (of an event, action or policy) cut short, broken off, having been cut short
    4. (by extension) broken off; broken, disconnected, abrupt

    Declension

    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

    Descendants

    (all borrowed)

    • Aromanian: abruptu
    • Catalan: abrupte
    • English: abrupt
    • French: abrupt
    • Galician: abrupto
    • Norwegian Bokmål: abrupt
    • Portuguese: abrupto, ab-rupto (Brazil)
    • Romanian: abrupt
    • Spanish: abrupto

    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, 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.
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