abruptus

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.

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

Descendants

(all borrowed)

  • Aromanian: abruptu
  • Catalan: abrupte
  • English: abrupt
  • French: abrupt
  • Galician: abrupto
  • Norwegian Bokmål: abrupt
  • Portuguese: abrupto, ab-rupto
  • 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’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.
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