concreta

Concreta is a term that appears in different languages and disciplines with related but distinct senses. In classical Latin, concreta is the neuter plural of concretus and occurs in philosophical, scholastic, and theological texts to denote concrete things—particular, embodied entities as distinguished from abstracta (universals or abstractions). The distinction between concreta and abstracta has been a recurring theme in medieval metaphysics and epistemology, where scholars debated how concrete objects and sensations relate to universal concepts and mental representations.

In contemporary Romance languages, concreta is the feminine singular form of the adjective concreto in Spanish and Portuguese, used to describe things that are tangible, definite, or specific. It appears in phrases such as hechos concretos (concrete facts) or evidencia concreta (concrete evidence). It can also function as the feminine form of the adjective modifying feminine nouns, for example, palabras concretas (concrete words).

Because meanings depend on language and context, there is no single English definition of concreta beyond these linguistic uses. The term is not associated with a standard organization, product, or technology in English-language reference works.