absolutus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of absolvō (“loosen, absolve”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ab.soˈluː.tus/, [äps̠ɔˈɫ̪uːt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ab.soˈlu.tus/, [äbsoˈluːt̪us]
Participle
absolūtus (feminine absolūta, neuter absolūtum, superlative absolūtissimus, adverb absolūtē); first/second-declension participle
- concluded, finished, complete, having been ended.
- Synonyms: complētus, perfectus, factus, dēfūnctus, effectus
- Antonyms: incohatus, infectus, imperfectus
- 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
- Synonyms: putus, purus
- Antonym: impurus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | absolūtus | absolūta | absolūtum | absolūtī | absolūtae | absolūta | |
| Genitive | absolūtī | absolūtae | absolūtī | absolūtōrum | absolūtārum | absolūtōrum | |
| Dative | absolūtō | absolūtō | absolūtīs | ||||
| Accusative | absolūtum | absolūtam | absolūtum | absolūtōs | absolūtās | absolūta | |
| Ablative | absolūtō | absolūtā | absolūtō | absolūtīs | |||
| Vocative | absolūte | absolūta | absolūtum | absolūtī | absolūtae | absolūta | |
Related terms
- absolūtē
- absolūtiō
- absolūtōrius
- absolvō
Descendants
- Italian: assolto
- Old French: assous
- French: absous
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: absolt
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: absuelto
- → Cebuano: absuwelto
- → Hiligaynon: absuelto
- → Tagalog: absuwelto
- Spanish: absuelto
- → Albanian: absolut
- → Belarusian: абсалютны (absaljutny)
- → Catalan: absolut
- → Crimean Tatar: absolüt
- → Czech: absolutní
- → Dutch: absoluut
- → English: absolute
- → Finnish: absoluuttinen
- → Middle French: absolut
- French: absolu
- → Romanian: absolut
- → Middle English: absolut
- English: absolute
- French: absolu
- → German: absolut
- → Italian: assoluto
- → Ladino: absoluto
- → Latvian: absolūts
- → Norwegian Bokmål: absolutt
- → Portuguese: absoluto
- → Russian: абсолютный (absoljutnyj)
- → Spanish: absoluto
- → Swedish: absolut
References
- “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, 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016