distractio
Latin
Etymology
From distrahō (“to drag apart”) + -tiō.
Noun
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
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | distractiō | distractiōnēs |
| genitive | distractiōnis | distractiōnum |
| dative | distractiōnī | distractiōnibus |
| accusative | distractiōnem | distractiōnēs |
| ablative | distractiōne | distractiōnibus |
| vocative | distractiō | distractiōnēs |
Descendants
- → Asturian: distraición
- → Catalan: distracció
- → Galician: distracción
- → Italian: distrazione
- → Middle French: distraction
- French: distraction
- → Romanian: distracție
- → English: distraction
- French: distraction
- → Occitan: distraccion
- → Piedmontese: distrassion
- → Portuguese: distração
- → Spanish: distracción
References
- “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.