frustra

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfɾus.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈfɾus.tɾa]

frustra

1. inflection of frustrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /fʁys.tʁa/

frustra

1. third-person singular past historic of frustrer

frustra

1. inflection of frustrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈfru.stra/
• Rhymes: -ustra
• Hyphenation: frù‧stra

Latinism, from Latin frūstrā.

frustra

1. in vain, uselessly

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

frustra

1. inflection of frustrare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Adverb from *frusterus, for *frudterus/ *fruditerus, from fraus (“harm, injury”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfruːs.traː/, [ˈfruːs̠t̪räː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfrus.tra/, [ˈfrust̪rä]

frūstrā (not comparable)

1. in deception, in error
2. without effect, to no purpose, without cause, uselessly, in vain, for nothing

   Synonyms: nēquīquam, īnfēlīciter, supervacuō

• frūstror / frūstrō

• in cassum
• fūtile

• “frustra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “frustra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• frustra 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)
• frustra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lose one's labour: operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere
    

frustra

1. inflection of frustrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French frustrer, from Latin frustrari.

a frustra (third-person singular present frustrează, past participle frustrat) 1st conj.

1. to frustrate

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾustɾa/ [ˈfɾus.t̪ɾa]
• Rhymes: -ustɾa
• Syllabification: frus‧tra

frustra

1. inflection of frustrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative