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fractus
fractus
English
Noun
fractus (plural fracti)
- (meteorology) a cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud, like scud. Associated with cumulus, and stratus genera.
Source AMS Glossary of Meteorology
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of frangō (“break, fragment”).
Participle
frāctus m (feminine frācta, neuter frāctum); first/second declension
- broken, shattered, having been broken.
- vanquished, defeated, having been defeated.
Inflection
First/second declension.
| 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 | |
comparative: frāctior, superlative: frāctissimus.
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Descendants
References
- 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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fractus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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)
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(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)