English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology 1 edit

From English hydrofracking.

Verb edit

frac (third-person singular simple present fracs, present participle fraccing, simple past and past participle fracced)

  1. (oil industry) To use hydraulic fracturing (fraccing)
    • 2011, Arrow, “Fraccing”, in Arrow Energy[1] (html), archived from the original on 22 January 2012:
      To date, Arrow has only fracced about 2.5 percent of its wells ...

Adjective edit

frac

  1. (oil industry) Relating to or denoting hydraulic fracturing
    • 2012 January 3, Ralph Benko, “Daniel Yergin's The Quest”, in Forbes[2]:
      More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago.
    • 2012 January 26, Jonathan Fahey, “No energy industry backing for the word 'fracking'”, in Yahoo News[3]:
      The drilling industry has generally spelled the word without a "K," using terms like "frac job" or "frac fluid."

Etymology 2 edit

Abbreviation of frac job.

Noun edit

frac (plural fracs)

  1. (oil industry) Frac job.
    • 1976, United States. Energy Research and Development Administration, Bartlesville Energy Technology Center, United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Oil, Gas, and Shale Technology, United States. Division of Oil, Gas, Shale, and In Situ Technology, United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Fossil Fuel Extraction, “NATURAL BUTTES UNIT, UINTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MASSIVE HYDRAULIC FRACTURING DEMONSTRATION”, in Contracts for cooperative and supporting research on enhanced oil and gas recovery and improved drilling methods[4], volumes 7-10:
      A program summary showing the type and volume of fluid and the size and amount of sand that is planned for the eight fracs is shown in table 1.

Etymology 3 edit

Abbreviation of fracture.

Noun edit

frac (plural fracs)

  1. Fracture.
  2. Fracturing.

Etymology 4 edit

Abbreviation of fraction.

Noun edit

frac (plural fracs)

  1. Fraction
  2. Fractioning

Derived terms edit

Anagrams edit

French edit

 
French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Etymology edit

From English frock.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /fʁak/
  • (file)

Noun edit

frac m (plural fracs)

  1. white tie and tails

Further reading edit

Italian edit

 
Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French frac.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

frac m (invariable)

  1. morning dress, tailcoat, white tie and tails

References edit

  1. ^ frac in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Celtic *wrakkā, probably related to *grúac (hair); for similar sense development, see Scottish Gaelic gruagach (maiden, woman), which evolved from gruag, as unmarried women did not cover their hair.[1][2][3]

Compare Welsh gwraig and Breton gwreg.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

frac f

  1. woman
    Synonyms: banscál, ben

Inflection edit

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative fracL fraicL fracaH
Vocative fracL fraicL fracaH
Accusative fraicN fraicL fracaH
Genitive fraiceH fracL fracN
Dative fraicL fracaib fracaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
frac ḟrac frac
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “frac”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page gruag
  2. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gwraig”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  3. ^ Garnett, R. (1859). The Philological Essays of the Late Rev. Richard Garnett, of the British Museum. United Kingdom: Williams and Norgate, p. 159

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French frac.

Noun edit

frac n (plural fracuri)

  1. white tie and tails

Declension edit

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French frac.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾak/ [ˈfɾak]
  • Rhymes: -ak
  • Syllabification: frac

Noun edit

frac m (plural fracs or fraques)

  1. tailcoat

Further reading edit