fraces
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *frakēs, possibly from earlier form *θrakēs, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“dregs, sediment”), likely of non-Indo-European origin.[1]
Noun edit
fracēs f pl (genitive fracum); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun, plural only.
Case | Plural |
---|---|
Nominative | fracēs |
Genitive | fracum |
Dative | fracibus |
Accusative | fracēs |
Ablative | fracibus |
Vocative | fracēs |
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “fraces”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fraces in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fracēs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 238: “*dʰragʰ- 'dredges of wine, oil, fat'”