abusus

Latin

Pronunciation

• abūsus:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈbuː.sʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈbuː.s̬us]
• abūsūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈbuː.suːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈbuː.s̬us]

Etymology 1

Perfect active participle of abūtor.

Participle

abūsus (feminine abūsa, neuter abūsum); first/second-declension participle

1. having consumed, wasted or misused

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	abūsus	abūsa	abūsum		abūsī	abūsae	abūsa
genitive	abūsī	abūsae	abūsī		abūsōrum	abūsārum	abūsōrum
dative	abūsō	abūsae	abūsō		abūsīs
accusative	abūsum	abūsam	abūsum		abūsōs	abūsās	abūsa
ablative	abūsō	abūsā	abūsō		abūsīs
vocative	abūse	abūsa	abūsum		abūsī	abūsae	abūsa

Etymology 2

From abūtor +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

Noun

abūsus m (genitive abūsūs); fourth declension

1. consumption
2. wasting

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	abūsus	abūsūs
genitive	abūsūs	abūsuum
dative	abūsuī	abūsibus
accusative	abūsum	abūsūs
ablative	abūsū	abūsibus
vocative	abūsus	abūsūs

Noun

abūsūs

1. inflection of abūsus:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

References

• “abusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “abusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "abusus", 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)
• “abusus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “abusus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “abusus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin