detritus

See also: détritus

English

Etymology

From Latin detritus (“the act of rubbing away”), from dēterō (“rub away”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɪˈtɹaɪtəs/
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Noun

detritus (usually uncountable, plural detritus or detrita)

  1. (countable, chiefly geological) pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
  2. (biology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
  3. debris or fragments of disintegrated material
    2001. "But of course: no clutter. No newspapers, no renegade scraps of domestic detritus, no rubber bands, paper clips, coupons, pens or pencils, notebooks, magazines. No knives. Where were the knives?" — Chip Kidd. The Cheese Monkeys

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Latin

Etymology

From dēterō (“rub away”), from dē (“away”) + terō (“rub”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈtriː.tus/, [deːˈtriː.tʊs]

Participle

dētrītus m (feminine dētrīta, neuter dētrītum); first/second declension

  1. rubbed away, worn away, worn out, having been rubbed away
  2. (figuratively) diminished in force, lessened, weakened, impaired, having been weakened
  3. (figuratively) worn out, trite, hackneyed, having been worn out

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative dētrītus dētrīta dētrītum dētrītī dētrītae dētrīta
Genitive dētrītī dētrītae dētrītī dētrītōrum dētrītārum dētrītōrum
Dative dētrītō dētrītō dētrītīs
Accusative dētrītum dētrītam dētrītum dētrītōs dētrītās dētrīta
Ablative dētrītō dētrītā dētrītō dētrītīs
Vocative dētrīte dētrīta dētrītum dētrītī dētrītae dētrīta

Noun

dētrītus m (genitive dētrītūs); fourth declension

  1. The act of rubbing away

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dētrītus dētrītūs
Genitive dētrītūs dētrītuum
Dative dētrītuī dētrītibus
Accusative dētrītum dētrītūs
Ablative dētrītū dētrītibus
Vocative dētrītus dētrītūs

Descendants

References
  • detritus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • detritus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • detritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Noun

detritus m (plural detritus)

  1. detritus
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