frustra

See also: frustrá

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʁys.tʁa/

Verb

frustra

  1. third-person singular past historic of frustrer

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfrus.tra/, [ˈfr̺us̪.t̪r̺ä]
  • Stress: frùstra
  • Hyphenation: fru‧stra

Etymology 1

Latinism, from Latin frūstrā.

Adverb

frustra

  1. in vain, uselessly

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

frustra

  1. third-person singular present indicative of frustrare
  2. second-person singular imperative of frustrare

Latin

Etymology

Adverb from *frusterus, for *frudterus/ *fruditerus, from fraus (“harm, injury”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

frūstrā

  1. in deception, in error
  2. without effect, to no purpose, without cause, uselessly, in vain, for nothing

Derived terms

See also

References

  • frustra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • frustra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • frustra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • frustra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to lose one's labour: operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere

Portuguese

Verb

frustra

  1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present indicative of frustrar
  2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of frustrar

Spanish

Verb

frustra

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of frustrar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of frustrar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of frustrar.
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