fraces
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *frakēs, possibly from earlier form *θrakēs, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“dregs, sediment”), likely of non-Indo-European origin.[1]
Noun
fracēs f pl (genitive fracum); third declension
- oil cake: grounds, solid waste coming from the pressing of olives; the lees, dregs of oil
- Coordinate term: amurca
Declension
Third-declension noun, plural only.
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | fracēs |
| genitive | fracum |
| dative | fracibus |
| accusative | fracēs |
| ablative | fracibus |
| vocative | fracēs |
Derived terms
References
- ^ 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'”
Further reading
- “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.