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fraces

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *frakēs, possibly from earlier form *θrakēs, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (dregs, sediment), likely of non-Indo-European origin.[1]

Noun

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fracēs f pl (genitive fracum); third declension

  1. lees, dregs of oil

Declension

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Third-declension noun, plural only.

plural
nominative fracēs
genitive fracum
dative fracibus
accusative fracēs
ablative fracibus
vocative fracēs

Derived terms

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References

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  • 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'