abruptus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of abrumpō (“break off, tear, sever”), from ab (“from, away from”) + rumpō (“break, burst, tear”).

Participle

abruptus (feminine abrupta, neuter abruptum, superlative abruptissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. broken off, torn, severed, having been broken off
2. (by extension) broken off; precipitous, steep, abrupt
3. (of an event, action or policy) cut short, broken off, having been cut short
4. (by extension) broken off; broken, disconnected, abrupt

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	abruptus	abrupta	abruptum		abruptī	abruptae	abrupta
Genitive	abruptī	abruptae	abruptī		abruptōrum	abruptārum	abruptōrum
Dative	abruptō		abruptō		abruptīs
Accusative	abruptum	abruptam	abruptum		abruptōs	abruptās	abrupta
Ablative	abruptō	abruptā	abruptō		abruptīs
Vocative	abrupte	abrupta	abruptum		abruptī	abruptae	abrupta

• comparative: abruptior, superlative: abruptissimus

Related terms

• abrumpō
• abruptē
• abruptiō

Descendants

(all borrowed)

• Aromanian: abruptu
• Catalan: abrupte
• English: abrupt
• French: abrupt
• Galician: abrupto
• Norwegian Bokmål: abrupt
• Portuguese: abrupto, ab-rupto
• Romanian: abrupt
• Spanish: abrupto

References

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