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abutor
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Latin
Etymology
From ab- (“from, away from”) + ūtor (“use, spend; manage, control”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈbuː.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈbuː.tor]
Verb
abūtor (present infinitive abūtī, perfect active abūsus sum); third conjugation, deponent
- to use up, exhaust, consume entirely
- to waste, squander
- to misuse, abuse; use improperly. (+ ablative)
- c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.5:
- Alia interim crūdēlia, inhūmāna praetereō, quod nē tamquam hominibus quidem, sed tamquam iūmentīs abūtimur.
- Meanwhile, other cruel, inhuman [treatments of slaves] I omit, because not even as [would be appropriate] for humans, but as [if they were] beasts of burden we abuse [them].
- Alia interim crūdēlia, inhūmāna praetereō, quod nē tamquam hominibus quidem, sed tamquam iūmentīs abūtimur.
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References
- “abutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “abutor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
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