English
abstractum
Abstractum comes from Latin abstractus ‘drawn away’, and goes back to trahō ‘drag, haul’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘drag, haul’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabstrahō‘draw away from’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabstractus‘drawn away’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabstractumneuter of abstractus
- Englishearliest quotation 2008same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘drag, haul’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabstrahō‘draw away from’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabstractus‘drawn away’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabstractumneuter of abstractus
- Englishearliest quotation 2008same form
Earliest quotation: 2008, Uriah Kriegel, The dispensability of (merely) intentional objects: “There are quite familiar and truly outstanding liabilities—ontological, epistemological,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- ‘to run, to drag, to pull’
draw, train, draft, drag, retreat, extraction, distraction, contraction, draught, subtraction, retract, entreat, 49 more
through Latin trahō ‘drag, haul’
treat, contract, attractive, portrait, attraction, extract, trait, traction, tractor, tram, tract, trattoria, 36 more
Today it means
noun Something which is abstract or exists abstractly.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin trahō / abstractum