frustra

• IPA^(key): /fʁys.tʁa/

frustra

1. third-person singular past historic of frustrer

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

Latinism, from Latin frūstrā.

frustra

1. in vain, uselessly

See the etymology of the main entry.

frustra

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

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfruːs.traː/

frūstrā

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

• frūstror/ frūstrō

• in cassum
• futtile

• 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
    

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

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.