frustra

See also: frustrá

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfɾus.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfɾus.tɾa]

Verb

frustra

1. inflection of frustrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁys.tʁa/

Verb

frustra

1. third-person singular past historic of frustrer

Galician

Verb

frustra

1. inflection of frustrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfru.stra/
• Rhymes: -ustra
• Hyphenation: frù‧stra

Etymology 1

Latinism, from Latin frūstrā.

Adverb

frustra

1. in vain, uselessly

Related terms

• frustraneità
• frustraneo
• frustrante
• frustrare
• frustrato
• frustrazione

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

frustra

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfruːs.traː/, [ˈfruːs̠t̪räː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfrus.tra/, [ˈfrust̪rä]

Adverb

frūstrā (not comparable)

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

   Synonyms: nēquīquam, īnfēlīciter, supervacuō

Derived terms

• frūstror / frūstrō

See also

• in cassum
• fūtile

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• frustra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lose one's labour: operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere
    

Portuguese

Verb

frustra

1. inflection of frustrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French frustrer, from Latin frustrari.

Verb

a frustra (third-person singular present frustrează, past participle frustrat) 1st conj.

1. to frustrate

Conjugation

    conjugation of frustra (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a frustra
gerund			frustrând
past participle			frustrat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	frustrez	frustrezi	frustrează	frustrăm	frustrați	frustrează
	imperfect	frustram	frustrai	frustra	frustram	frustrați	frustrau
	simple perfect	frustrai	frustrași	frustră	frustrarăm	frustrarăți	frustrară
	pluperfect	frustrasem	frustraseși	frustrase	frustraserăm	frustraserăți	frustraseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să frustrez	să frustrezi	să frustreze	să frustrăm	să frustrați	să frustreze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		frustrează			frustrați
	negative		nu frustra			nu frustrați

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾustɾa/ [ˈfɾus.t̪ɾa]
• Rhymes: -ustɾa
• Syllabification: frus‧tra

Verb

frustra

1. inflection of frustrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative