absolutus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perfect passive participle of absolvō (“loosen, absolve”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ab.soˈluː.tus/, [äps̠ɔˈɫ̪uːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ab.soˈlu.tus/, [äbsoˈluːt̪us]
Participle
[edit]absolūtus (feminine absolūta, neuter absolūtum, superlative absolūtissimus, adverb absolūtē); first/second-declension participle
- concluded, finished, complete, having been ended.
- unrestricted, unconditional, absolute.
- (grammar) which gives its sense without modification; which lacks case; which stands in the positive.
- (law) absolved, acquitted, having been declared innocent.
- fluent
- perfect, pure
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | absolūtus | absolūta | absolūtum | absolūtī | absolūtae | absolūta | |
| genitive | absolūtī | absolūtae | absolūtī | absolūtōrum | absolūtārum | absolūtōrum | |
| dative | absolūtō | absolūtae | absolūtō | absolūtīs | |||
| accusative | absolūtum | absolūtam | absolūtum | absolūtōs | absolūtās | absolūta | |
| ablative | absolūtō | absolūtā | absolūtō | absolūtīs | |||
| vocative | absolūte | absolūta | absolūtum | absolūtī | absolūtae | absolūta | |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Italian: assolto
- Old French: assous
- French: absous
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: absolt
- Old Spanish:
- → Albanian: absolut
- → Belarusian: абсалютны (absaljutny)
- → Catalan: absolut
- → Crimean Tatar: absolüt
- → Czech: absolutní
- → Dutch: absoluut
- → English: absolute
- → Finnish: absoluuttinen
- → Middle French: absolut
- → German: absolut
- → Italian: assoluto
- → Ladino: absoluto
- → Latvian: absolūts
- → Norwegian Bokmål: absolutt
- → Portuguese: absoluto
- → Russian: абсолютный (absoljutnyj)
- → Spanish: absoluto
- → Swedish: absolut
References
[edit]- “absolutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “absolutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- absolutus 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)
- absolutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- absolutely perfect: absolutus et perfectus
- perfect in every detail: omnibus numeris absolutus (N. D. 2. 13)
- a master-piece of classical work: opus omnibus numeris absolutum
- absolutely perfect: absolutus et perfectus
- absolutus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016