abactus

== Latin == === Pronunciation === abāctus: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈbaːk.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈbak.tus] abāctūs: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈbaːk.tuːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈbak.tus] === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of abigō (“drive away, deter”). ==== Participle ==== abāctus (feminine abācta, neuter abāctum); first/second-declension participle driven away, stolen, having been driven away (especially of cattle) deterred, discouraged, having been deterred (of a disease) removed, having been removed ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === From abigō (“drive away, deter”) +‎ -tus (noun-forming suffix). ==== Noun ==== abāctus m (genitive abāctūs); fourth declension The act of driving away, robbing (especially of cattle). ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. === Related terms === === Further reading === “abactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “abactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “abactus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. abactus, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011