Latin

Noun

abstinentia f ‎(genitive abstinentiae); first declension

1. abstinence, self-restraint
2. fasting

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• English: abstinence
• Hungarian: absztinencia
• Irish: abstanaid
• Old Irish: abstanait
• Old Portuguese: astẽença
• Portuguese: abstinência (borrowing)

Participle

abstinentia

1. nominative neuter plural of abstinēns
2. accusative neuter plural of abstinēns
3. vocative neuter plural of abstinēns

References

• abstinentia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abstinentia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ABSTINENTIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “abstinentia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.