abstractum

English

Borrowed from Latin abstractum, neuter of abstractus (“drawn away”). Doublet of abstract.

abstractum (plural abstracta)

(philosophy, usually in the plural) Something which is abstract or exists abstractly. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.][1]
- 2008 August 5, Uriah Kriegel, “The dispensability of (merely) intentional objects”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, →DOI:
  There are quite familiar and truly outstanding liabilities—ontological, epistemological, and phenomenological—associated with saying that merely intentional objects are abstracta, or mental concreta, or non-existent non-mental concreta.

Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstractum”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.

abstractum

inflection of abstractus:
1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
2. accusative masculine singular

abstractum 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)

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