abactio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin abigō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin abāctiō

From abigō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈbaːk.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈbak.t͡si.o]

Noun

abāctiō f (genitive abāctiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) Driving away, theft (of cattle).
   • c. 414, Jerome, Commentaria in Jeremiam prophetam, 1.5.15:

     Simulque describit vastitatem terrae Judaeae, interfectionemque multorum, abactionem pecorum, subversionem urbium atque murorum […]

     At the same time he describes the devastation of the land of Judah, the slaughter of many, the driving away of cattle, the ruin of cities and walls […]

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	abāctiō	abāctiōnēs
genitive	abāctiōnis	abāctiōnum
dative	abāctiōnī	abāctiōnibus
accusative	abāctiōnem	abāctiōnēs
ablative	abāctiōne	abāctiōnibus
vocative	abāctiō	abāctiōnēs

Descendants

• → English: abaction

Adjective

abāctiō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of abāctius

References

• “abactio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Souter, Alexander (1949), “abactio”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.‎^[1], 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 1