See also: frustrá

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frustra

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

French edit

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frustra

  1. third-person singular past historic of frustrer

Galician edit

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frustra

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

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

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

Etymology 1 edit

Latinism, from Latin frūstrā.

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frustra

  1. in vain, uselessly
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Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

frustra

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

Latin edit

Etymology edit

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

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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

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  • 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to lose one's labour: operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere

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frustra

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

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French frustrer, from Latin frustrari.

Verb edit

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

  1. to frustrate

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Pronunciation edit

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

Verb edit

frustra

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