districtus
Latin
Etymology
From distringere.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /disˈtrik.tus/, [d̪ɪs̠ˈt̪rɪkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /disˈtrik.tus/, [d̪isˈt̪rikt̪us]
Adjective
districtus (feminine districta, neuter districtum); first/second-declension adjective
- busy, stretched (pulled in different directions)
- distracted
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | districtus | districta | districtum | districtī | districtae | districta | |
| Genitive | districtī | districtae | districtī | districtōrum | districtārum | districtōrum | |
| Dative | districtō | districtō | districtīs | ||||
| Accusative | districtum | districtam | districtum | districtōs | districtās | districta | |
| Ablative | districtō | districtā | districtō | districtīs | |||
| Vocative | districte | districta | districtum | districtī | districtae | districta | |
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
- 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’s 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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