haustus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of hauriō (“draw, drain”).

Pronunciation

Participle

haustus (feminine hausta, neuter haustum); first/second-declension participle

  1. drawn, drained, having been drawn
  2. swallowed, absorbed, having been swallowed
  3. (of blood) spilled, shed, having been spilled
  4. devoured, consumed, exhausted, depleted, used up; engulfed; having been exhausted
  5. torn up, plucked out, drawn out; dug up, hollowed out; having been plucked out
  6. drawn, derived, borrowed, taken, having been borrowed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative haustus hausta haustum haustī haustae hausta
Genitive haustī haustae haustī haustōrum haustārum haustōrum
Dative haustō haustō haustīs
Accusative haustum haustam haustum haustōs haustās hausta
Ablative haustō haustā haustō haustīs
Vocative hauste hausta haustum haustī haustae hausta

Noun

haustus m (genitive haustūs); fourth declension

  1. The act of drawing or draining.
  2. The act of drinking or swallowing.
  3. Something which is drunk; a drink, draught.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative haustus haustūs
Genitive haustūs haustuum
Dative haustuī haustibus
Accusative haustum haustūs
Ablative haustū haustibus
Vocative haustus haustūs

References
  • “haustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “haustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • haustus 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)
  • haustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to slake one's thirst by a draught of cold water: sitim haustu gelidae aquae sedare
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