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districtus
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Latin
Etymology
From distringō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɪsˈtrɪk.tʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [disˈtrik.tus]
Adjective
districtus (feminine districta, neuter districtum); first/second-declension adjective
- busy, stretched (pulled in different directions)
- distracted
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Related terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: distrik
- Catalan: districte
- Danish: distrikt
- Dutch: district
- English: district, Detroit
- French: détroit, district
- Italian: distretto
- Mirandese: çtrito
- Norman: district
- Norwegian: distrikt
- Piedmontese: distret
- → Portuguese: distrito
- Romanian: district
- Scots: destrict
- → Spanish: distrito (learned)
- Swedish: distrikt
References
- “districtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “districtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "districtus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “districtus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be involved in many undertakings; to be much occupied, embarrassed, overwhelmed by business-claims: multis negotiis implicatum, districtum, distentum, obrutum esse
- to be involved in many undertakings; to be much occupied, embarrassed, overwhelmed by business-claims: multis negotiis implicatum, districtum, distentum, obrutum esse
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