absoluta
Pronunciation: /absoˈluta/
“absoluta” is an Esperanto word. Its 7 meanings in English:
adjective
- Free from limitations or conditions; unconditional, unrestricted.
- Free from imperfection; positive, peremptory
- Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence.
- pure, unmixed
- Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties.
- The numerical value of a real number.
- The modulus of a complex number.
Etymology
Borrowed from English absolute, French absolu, German absolut, Italian assoluto ,Russian абсолю́тный (absoljútnyj), from Latin absolūtus (“unconditional; unfettered; completed”), perfect passive participle of absolvō (“loosen, set free, complete”), from ab (“away”) + solvo (“to loose”). First attested in 1889.
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