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

  1. lees, dregs of oil

Declension

Third-declension noun, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative fracēs
Genitive fracum
Dative fracibus
Accusative fracēs
Ablative fracibus
Vocative fracēs

Derived terms

References
  • “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.
  1. 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'”
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