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Etymology edit

From Latin fractus.

Noun edit

fractus (plural fracti)

  1. (meteorology) A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud.[1]
    • 2013, C. Donald Ahrens, Robert Henson, Meteorology Today, 11th edition, Cengage Learning, page 130:
      FIGURE 5.17 [] The ragged-appearing clouds beneath the nimbostratus are stratus fractus, or scud.

Usage notes edit

Associated with the cloud genera cumulus and stratus. That is, one may speak of cumulus fractus and stratus fractus (respectively, formerly called fractocumulus and fractostratus).

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References edit

  1. ^ "fractus" on American Meteorological Society Glossary of Meteorology

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

Perfect passive participle of frangō (break, fragment).

Participle edit

frāctus (feminine frācta, neuter frāctum, comparative frāctior); first/second-declension participle

  1. broken, shattered, having been broken.
  2. vanquished, defeated, having been defeated.

Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative frāctus frācta frāctum frāctī frāctae frācta
Genitive frāctī frāctae frāctī frāctōrum frāctārum frāctōrum
Dative frāctō frāctō frāctīs
Accusative frāctum frāctam frāctum frāctōs frāctās frācta
Ablative frāctō frāctā frāctō frāctīs
Vocative frācte frācta frāctum frāctī frāctae frācta

Adjective edit

frāctus (feminine frācta, neuter frāctum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. harsh, sour
    Synonyms: ācer, acerbus, asper
  2. tired, exhausted
    Synonyms: fessus, cōnfectus, dēfessus, languidus
    Antonym: vīvus
  3. languid, soft, cutesy
  4. destroyed, demolished, unheartened
    Synonym: dēmissus
  5. feeble, weak
    Synonyms: dēbilis, languidus, aeger, fessus, īnfirmus, tenuis, mollis, inops, obnoxius
    Antonyms: praevalēns, fortis, potis, potēns, validus, strēnuus, compos

Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative frāctus frācta frāctum frāctī frāctae frācta
Genitive frāctī frāctae frāctī frāctōrum frāctārum frāctōrum
Dative frāctō frāctō frāctīs
Accusative frāctum frāctam frāctum frāctōs frāctās frācta
Ablative frāctō frāctā frāctō frāctīs
Vocative frācte frācta frāctum frāctī frāctae frācta

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References edit

  • fractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fractus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • fractus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be cast down, discouraged, in despair: animo esse humili, demisso (more strongly animo esse fracto, perculso et abiecto) (Att. 3. 2)
    • (ambiguous) to be completely prostrated by fear: metu fractum et debilitatum, perculsum esse
  • Dizionario Latino, Olivetti