English

Noun

defrutum ‎(uncountable)

1. A reduction of must in Ancient Roman cuisine, made by boiling down grape juice or must in large kettles until reduced to half of the original volume.

See also

• carenum
• sapa

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fruto-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- ‎(“to brew, boil”), or per Schrijver's reconstruction, *bʰrew- ‎(“to brew, boil”), perhaps interrelated with variant semantics. Ultimately also related to ferveō and fermentum.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdeː.fru.tum/, [ˈdeː.frʊ.tũ]

Noun

dēfrutum n ‎(genitive dēfrutī); second declension

1. Grape must reduced by boiling.

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• dēfrutō ‎(“I reduce to a syrup”)

References

• defrutum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• defrutum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• defrutum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 165, 213, 215-6.