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Etymology and origin of the Latin word abstrudo

Confidence
Established
Formation
Derivation
First attested
c. 250–184 BC, Plautus
Ultimate origin
Proto-Indo-European (*treud-)
Etymology tree
inherited borrowed derived
Latin trudo
Latin detrudo
Latin extrudo
Latin abstrudo

Pronunciation

  • Classical: [apˈstruː.doː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [abˈstruː.do][1]

Forms

abstrūdō (present infinitive abstrūdere, perfect active abstrūsī, supine abstrūsum); third conjugation[1] It is also spelled apstrūdō.[2]

Etymology

It is from Latin abs- + trūdō (“to thrust, push”).[2][1] De Vaan traces trūdō to Proto-Italic *treude/o- and Proto-Indo-European *treud- (“to push, thrust”).[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Plautus has it first: a man says he has hidden his pot in the shrine of Faith.[2][4]

Semantic evolution

It is to thrust away and so to hide: Plautus also has gold hidden away, and jokingly blows driven into someone's very brain.[4] In the passive it is to be hidden from view, as Vitruvius writes of doors hidden by crowded columns.[2] Tacitus uses it of suppressing an emotion: the deified Julius and Augustus hid their grief.[2] The participle ⟨abstrūsus⟩, hidden, is common from Accius on, of a hidden river, land, temple or part of a town.[5] Church Latin glosses it to hide, conceal.[6]

Timeline

  • c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of hiding a pot.[2][4][7]
  • 170–c. 90 BC – Accius has the participle of a hidden river.[5][7]
  • c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius of doors hidden by columns.[2][7]
  • 98–115 AD – Tacitus of hiding grief.[2][7]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To thrust away; to conceal, hide from view.[2][4][1][6]
  2. To suppress an emotion, keep it from showing.[2]

Word family

  • abstrūsiō

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  4. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  5. ^ a b Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  6. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
  7. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
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“Abstrudo.” Etymologically, 20 Oct. 2026, etymologically.com/la/abstrudo. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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