Noun: abacus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Second
Nominative
| Singular | abacus |
| Plural | abacī |
Genitive
| Singular | abacī |
| Plural | abacōrum |
Dative
| Singular | abacō |
| Plural | abacīs |
Accusative
| Singular | abacum |
| Plural | abacōs |
Ablative
| Singular | abacō |
| Plural | abacīs |
Vocative
| Singular | abace |
| Plural | abacī |
Sample Sentences
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Ab hoc abaci vasa omnia, ut exposita fuerunt, abstulit. (From this place he removed all the sideboard's dishes, since they had been exposed.) [70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem II.4.35]
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...nec qui abaco numeros et secto in pulvere metas / scit risisse vafer, multum gaudere paratus, / si cynico barbam petulans nonaria vellat. (...nor the man who has the wit to laugh at the figures on the counting board and the cones drawn in sand, ready to go off in ecstasies if a prostitute pulls a Cynic by the beard.) [c. 62 CE, Persius, Saturae I.131]
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Sed cum inter initia imperii eburneis quadrigis cotidie in abaco luderet, ad omnis etiam minimos circenses e secessu commeabat, primo clam, deinde propalam, ut nemini dubium esset eo die utique affuturum. (But in the early stages of his rule he used to play every day on a gaming board with ivory chariots. He would also travel from his retreat to the Circus games, even the least important ones, at first in secret and then openly. As a result, no one was in any doubt that he would be present in Rome that day at least.) [121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita Neronis 22]
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Hoc autem et Attico ad lumina utuntur, ad abacos non nisi marmoroso, quoniam marmor in eo resistit amaritudini calcis. (This and the Attic sort they used for high lights, for panels none but the marmorean kind, because the marble in it resists acridity of the lime.) [77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia XXXIII.56]
Nouns inflected like abacus
priāpismus,
scāpus,
servus,
cuneolus,
sargus,
saccus,
scarus,
scinus,
scopus,
illēgitimus,
sorbus,
sophus,
somnus,
Hispānus,
soccus,
sirpus,
siclus,
icterus,
cunīculus,
xystus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax, “board”). See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἄβαξ'.
Verbs referencing "abacus"
English Nouns
abacus, Dutch Nouns
abacus, French Nouns
abaque, Galician Nouns
ábaco, Spanish Nouns
ábaco, Czech Nouns
abakus, Finnish Nouns
abakus, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
abakus, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
abakus, Slovak Nouns
abakus, German Nouns
Abakus, Italian Nouns
abbaco, Irish Nouns
abacas, Hungarian Nouns
abakusz, Portuguese Nouns
abacista, Spanish Nouns
abacista, Catalan Nouns
àbac, Greek Nouns
άμπακας, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
abasist.
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