frustra

See also: frustrá

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁys.tʁa/

Verb

frustra

1. third-person singular past historic of frustrer

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrus.tra/, [ˈfr̺us̪.t̪r̺ä]
• Hyphenation: frù‧stra

Etymology 1

Latinism, from Latin frūstrā.

Adverb

frustra

1. in vain, uselessly

Related terms

• frustraneità
• frustraneo
• frustrante
• frustrare
• frustrato
• frustrazione

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

frustra

1. third-person singular present indicative of frustrare
2. second-person singular imperative of frustrare

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Latin

Etymology

Adverb from *frusterus, for *frudterus/ *fruditerus, from fraus (“harm, injury”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfruːs.traː/, [ˈfruːs̠t̪räː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfrus.tra/, [ˈfrust̪rä]

Adverb

frūstrā (not comparable)

1. in deception, in error
2. without effect, to no purpose, without cause, uselessly, in vain, for nothing

Derived terms

• frūstror/ frūstrō

See also

• in cassum
• futtile

References

• “frustra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “frustra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• frustra 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)
• frustra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lose one's labour: operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere
    

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Portuguese

Verb

frustra

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Spanish

Verb

frustra

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of frustrar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of frustrar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of frustrar.