distractio

Latin

Etymology

From distrahō (“to drag apart”) +‎ -tiō.

Noun

distractiō f (genitive distractiōnis); third declension

1. A dragging apart; a pulling away; an act of separating or dividing
2. (figuratively) Something that causes people to turn away from each other or their activity; discord; a distraction

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	distractiō	distractiōnēs
Genitive	distractiōnis	distractiōnum
Dative	distractiōnī	distractiōnibus
Accusative	distractiōnem	distractiōnēs
Ablative	distractiōne	distractiōnibus
Vocative	distractiō	distractiōnēs

Descendants

• Asturian: distraición
• Catalan: distracció
• English: distraction
• French: distraction
• Galician: distracción
• Italian: distrazione
• Occitan: distraccion
• Piedmontese: distrassion
• Portuguese: distração
• Romanian: distracție
• Spanish: distracción

References

• “distractio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “distractio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• distractio 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)
• distractio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.