distractio
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From distrahō (“I drag apart”).
Noun[edit]
distractiō f (genitive distractiōnis); third declension
- A dragging apart; a pulling away; an act of separating or dividing
- (figuratively) Something that causes people to turn away from each other or their activity; discord; a distraction
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
- Asturian: distraición
- Catalan: distracció
- English: distraction
- French: distraction
- Galician: distracción
- Italian: distrazione
- Occitan: distraccion
- Piedmontese: distrassion
- Portuguese: distração
- Romanian: distracție
- Spanish: distracción
References[edit]
- “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.