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Abstract

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means existing as a concept or idea rather than a concrete, physical thing
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Stage 1 of 2
abstrahere
Latin · ancient
"to draw away"
to draw away, from abs- (away) and trahere (to draw)
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Stage 2 of 2
abstract
English · 1400s
"existing as an idea rather than a physical thing"
settled as the English word for something existing as an idea rather than a physical thing
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