abiectus
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPerfect passive participle of abiciō (“throw away or down; abandon; overthrow; humble”), from ab (“from, away from”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”).
Participle
editabiectus (feminine abiecta, neuter abiectum, comparative abiectior, superlative abiectissimus, adverb abiectē); first/second-declension participle
- thrown or cast aside, down or away, having been thrown away
- given up, abandoned, degraded, having been abandoned
- overthrown, having been overthrown
- (by extension) humble, low, crouched; subservient
- (by extension) base, sordid
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | abiectus | abiecta | abiectum | abiectī | abiectae | abiecta | |
Genitive | abiectī | abiectae | abiectī | abiectōrum | abiectārum | abiectōrum | |
Dative | abiectō | abiectō | abiectīs | ||||
Accusative | abiectum | abiectam | abiectum | abiectōs | abiectās | abiecta | |
Ablative | abiectō | abiectā | abiectō | abiectīs | |||
Vocative | abiecte | abiecta | abiectum | abiectī | abiectae | abiecta |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “abiectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “abjectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press