English
frustration
Frustration comes from Latin frūstrātiō ‘disappointment’, from frūstror ‘deceive, trick’, and ultimately from frūstrā ‘in deception, in error’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrūstrā‘in deception, in error’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrūstror‘deceive, trick’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrūstrātiō‘disappointment’
- Englishearliest quotation 1965frustration
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrūstrā‘in deception, in error’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrūstror‘deceive, trick’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrūstrātiō‘disappointment’
- Englishearliest quotation 1965frustration
Earliest quotation: 1965, The Georgia Review, University of Georgia: “The hope , however , is a slight one…”
Equivalent to frustrate + -ion
Latin frūstrā ‘in deception, in error’
Latin frustror ‘to deceive’
Latin frūstrātus ‘deceived’
Middle English frustraten ‘to prevent, disappoint, render useless’
English frustrate
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- ‘to bear, carry’
bar, birth, prefer, broad, bread, fortune, burden, bearing, barrel, barn, bore, fury, breeze, bark, baron, berth, broom, barrow, embargo, fret, ferret, insufferable, bier, furtive, bahar, proffer, birr, barrette, bairn, burnish, 114 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti ‘to bear, carry’
bear, borne, phosphate, euphoria, phosphorus, dysphoria, semaphore, indifferently, phosphine, 92 more
through Proto-Italic *ferō ‘to carry, bear’
suffering, differently, indifferent, differentiation, infertility, deference, infertile, differentially, deferential, differentiable, differentiator, 69 more
through Latin ferō ‘to bear, carry, bring’
different, offer, difference, reference, suffer, transfer, relative, relate, differ, referendum, referee, relation, translation, fertility, translate, fertile, defer, infer, confer, elated, fertilization, fertilize, dilate, collate, efferent, elation, collation, oblate, 80 more
through Latin auferō ‘to take away’
through Latin ablātīvus
extraordinary, strangely, extravagant, infra, extraneous, strangeness, ablative, estrange, 3 more
Today it means
noun The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin frūstrā / frustration