foedifragus
Latin
Etymology
foed(us) (“pact, alliance”) + -i- (connecting vowel) + frag-, a stem of the verb frangō (“I break”) + -us (adjective-forming suffix)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /foe̯ˈdi.fra.ɡus/, [foe̯ˈd̪ɪfräɡʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /feˈdi.fra.ɡus/, [feˈd̪iːfräɡus]
Adjective
foedifragus (feminine foedifraga, neuter foedifragum); first/second-declension adjective
- league-breaking
- (very rare) perfidious
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | foedifragus | foedifraga | foedifragum | foedifragī | foedifragae | foedifraga | |
| Genitive | foedifragī | foedifragae | foedifragī | foedifragōrum | foedifragārum | foedifragōrum | |
| Dative | foedifragō | foedifragō | foedifragīs | ||||
| Accusative | foedifragum | foedifragam | foedifragum | foedifragōs | foedifragās | foedifraga | |
| Ablative | foedifragō | foedifragā | foedifragō | foedifragīs | |||
| Vocative | foedifrage | foedifraga | foedifragum | foedifragī | foedifragae | foedifraga | |
Descendants
- → English: fedifragous
- → Italian: fedifrago
- → Sicilian: fidìfracu
References
- “foedifragus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- foedifragus 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)
- foedifragus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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