abstractio

Latin

Etymology

From abstrahō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /abˈstrak.ti.oː/, [äpˈs̠t̪räkt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈstrak.t͡si.o/, [äbˈst̪räkt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

abstractiō f (genitive abstractiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) separation
2. (Late Latin) abstraction

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abstractiō	abstractiōnēs
Genitive	abstractiōnis	abstractiōnum
Dative	abstractiōnī	abstractiōnibus
Accusative	abstractiōnem	abstractiōnēs
Ablative	abstractiōne	abstractiōnibus
Vocative	abstractiō	abstractiōnēs

Descendants

• Asturian: astraición, astracción
• Catalan: abstracció
• Czech: abstrakce
• English: abstraction
• French: abstraction
• Galician: abstracción

• Georgian: აბსტრაქცია (absṭrakcia)
• German: Abstraktion
• Hungarian: absztrakció
• Italian: astrazione
• Norwegian Bokmål: abstraksjon
• Occitan: abstraccion

• Polish: abstrakcja
• → Portuguese: abstração
• Romanian: abstracție
• → Russian: абстра́кция (abstrákcija)
  • → Armenian: աբստրակցիա (abstrakcʻia)
  • → Kazakh: абстракция (abstraksiä)
• Slovak: abstrakcia
• Spanish: abstracción
• Swedish: abstraktion

References

• “abstractio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abstractio 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)
• abstractio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.