fractus
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
fractus (plural fracti)
- (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).
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ "fractus" on American Meteorological Society Glossary of Meteorology
Further reading edit
- List of cloud types on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Perfect passive participle of frangō (“break, fragment”).
Participle edit
frāctus (feminine frācta, neuter frāctum, comparative frāctior); first/second-declension participle
- broken, shattered, having been broken.
- vanquished, defeated, having been defeated.
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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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
- harsh, sour
- tired, exhausted
- languid, soft, cutesy
- destroyed, demolished, unheartened
- Synonym: dēmissus
- feeble, weak
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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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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Descendants edit
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
- to be cast down, discouraged, in despair: animo esse humili, demisso (more strongly animo esse fracto, perculso et abiecto) (Att. 3. 2)
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti