fretus

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *frētos, from earlier *θrētos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr-eh₁-tos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-.

Adjective

frētus (feminine frēta, neuter frētum); first/second-declension adjective

1. trusting to, relying on, depending upon; supported by or leaning on something [with ablative or dative]

   voce fretus ― relying on the rumor

   numero fretus ― relying on the number

   • c. 110 BCE – c. 25 BCE, Cornelius Nepos, De Viris Illustribus, Miltiades V:

     Datis, etsi non aequum locum videbat suis, tamen fretus numero copiarum suarum confligere cupiebat.

     (The general) Datis, however not seeing a proper place for his troops, relying on the number of his armies longed to battle.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	frētus	frēta	frētum		frētī	frētae	frēta
genitive	frētī	frētae	frētī		frētōrum	frētārum	frētōrum
dative	frētō	frētae	frētō		frētīs
accusative	frētum	frētam	frētum		frētōs	frētās	frēta
ablative	frētō	frētā	frētō		frētīs
vocative	frēte	frēta	frētum		frētī	frētae	frēta

Descendants

• → Italian: freto (learned)

Etymology 2

From fretum (“strait, channel”).

Noun

fretus m (genitive fretūs); fourth declension

1. strait, channel

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fretus	fretūs
genitive	fretūs	fretuum
dative	fretuī	fretibus
accusative	fretum	fretūs
ablative	fretū	fretibus
vocative	fretus	fretūs

References

• “fretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fretus in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• "fretus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fretus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.