noun · masculinefourth declension
abāctus
abāctus m (genitive abāctūs)
Classical[aˈbaːk.tʊs]Ecclesiastical[aˈbak.tus]
Meaning
- The act of driving away, robbing (especially of cattle).
Quam dissimilis nuper alterius principis transitus, si tamen transitus ille, non populatio fuit, cum abactus hospitum exerceret, omniaque dextra laevaque perusta et attrita...
How unlike this was the late march of the prince, if it can even be called a march and not a hostile incursion, when he oversaw the driving away of the enemy, wearing away and burning all to the left and to the right...61 CE – c. 112 CE, Plinius Minor, Panegyricus 20.4Deinde linteolo prope cadaver sumpto abiit et aqua cui illud immerserat, aegra membra respergens, illico omne inde venenum abstersit, et quem morbum nulla medicae artis praesidia curare potuerant, extemplo vidit abactum.
Then he removed the small linen cloth placed near the body, and, cleaning the sick limbs with the water in which it had been immersed, in that very place he wiped away all poison from them, and he immediately saw the driving away of disease which no help of the medical arts had been able to cure.1891, Acta Sanctae Sedes, Vatican, page 25:
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | abāctus | abāctūs |
| genitive | abāctūs | abāctuum |
| dative | abāctuī | abāctibus |
| accusative | abāctum | abāctūs |
| ablative | abāctū | abāctibus |
| vocative | abāctus | abāctūs |
ăbactus, a, um, Part. of abigo, q. v.
ăbactus, ūs, m. abigo,
I. a driving away, robbing (of cattle, vessels, etc.), Plin. Pan. 20, 4.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
abāctus
P. of abigo, driven away, driven off: nox abacta, driven back (from the pole), i. e. already turned towards dawn, V.: abacta nullā conscientiā, restrained by, H.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin abāctus From abigō (“drive away, deter”) + -tus (noun-forming suffix).