districtus

Latin

Etymology

From distringere.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /disˈtrik.tus/, [d̪ɪs̠ˈt̪rɪkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /disˈtrik.tus/, [d̪isˈt̪rikt̪us]

Adjective

districtus (feminine districta, neuter districtum); first/second-declension adjective

1. busy, stretched (pulled in different directions)
2. distracted

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	districtus	districta	districtum		districtī	districtae	districta
Genitive	districtī	districtae	districtī		districtōrum	districtārum	districtōrum
Dative	districtō		districtō		districtīs
Accusative	districtum	districtam	districtum		districtōs	districtās	districta
Ablative	districtō	districtā	districtō		districtīs
Vocative	districte	districta	districtum		districtī	districtae	districta

Related terms

• distringō

Descendants

• Afrikaans: distrik
• Catalan: districte
• Danish: distrikt
• Dutch: district
• English: district, Detroit
• French: détroit, district
• Italian: distretto
• Norman: district

• Norwegian: distrikt
• Portuguese: distrito
• Romanian: district
• Scots: destrict
• Spanish: distrito
  • Cebuano: distrito
  • Hiligaynon: distrito
  • Quechua: distritu
• Swedish: distrikt

References

• “districtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “districtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• districtus 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)
• districtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be involved in many undertakings; to be much occupied, embarrassed, overwhelmed by business-claims: multis negotiis implicatum, districtum, distentum, obrutum esse