fractus
English
Etymology
From Latin fractus.
Noun
fractus (plural fracti)
- (meteorology) A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud.[1]
- 2013, C. Donald Ahrens, Robert Henson, Meteorology Today, 11th Edition, Cengage Learning, page 130,
- FIGURE 5.17 […] The ragged-appearing clouds beneath the nimbostratus are stratus fractus, or scud.
- 2013, C. Donald Ahrens, Robert Henson, Meteorology Today, 11th Edition, Cengage Learning, page 130,
Usage notes
Associated with the cloud genera cumulus and stratus. That is, one may speak of cumulus fractus and stratus fractus (respectively, formerly called fractocumulus and fractostratus).
Derived terms
- stratus fractus
Related terms
- fractocumulus
- fractostratus
References
- "fractus" on American Meteorological Society Glossary of Meteorology
Further reading
List of cloud types on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of frangō (“break, fragment”).
Participle
frāctus (feminine frācta, neuter frāctum, comparative frāctior); first/second-declension participle
- broken, shattered, having been broken.
- vanquished, defeated, having been defeated.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | frāctus | frācta | frāctum | frāctī | frāctae | frācta | |
Genitive | frāctī | frāctae | frāctī | frāctōrum | frāctārum | frāctōrum | |
Dative | frāctō | frāctō | frāctīs | ||||
Accusative | frāctum | frāctam | frāctum | frāctōs | frāctās | frācta | |
Ablative | frāctō | frāctā | frāctō | frāctīs | |||
Vocative | frācte | frācta | frāctum | frāctī | frāctae | frācta |
Adjective
frāctus (feminine frācta, neuter frāctum); first/second-declension adjective
- harsh, sour
- Synonyms: ācer, acerbus, asper
- tired, exhausted
- Synonyms: fessus, cōnfectus, dēfessus, languidus
- Antonym: vīvus
- languid, soft, cutesy
- destroyed, demolished, unheartened
- Synonym: dēmissus
- feeble, weak
- Synonyms: dēbilis, languidus, aeger, fessus, īnfirmus, tenuis, mollis, inops, obnoxius
- Antonyms: praevalēns, fortis, potis, potēns, validus, strēnuus, compos
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | frāctus | frācta | frāctum | frāctī | frāctae | frācta | |
Genitive | frāctī | frāctae | frāctī | frāctōrum | frāctārum | frāctōrum | |
Dative | frāctō | frāctō | frāctīs | ||||
Accusative | frāctum | frāctam | frāctum | frāctōs | frāctās | frācta | |
Ablative | frāctō | frāctā | frāctō | frāctīs | |||
Vocative | frācte | frācta | frāctum | frāctī | frāctae | frācta |
Related terms
- frāctiō
- frangō
- frangibilis
Descendants
- Aromanian: frãmtu
- Friulian: frant
- Galician: freita, afreitas
- Italian: franto, fratto
- Ladin: frant
- Old French: frait, fret
- Old Spanish: frecho
- Romanian: frânt
- Sicilian: frantu
References
- “fractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fractus 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)
- fractus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be cast down, discouraged, in despair: animo esse humili, demisso (more strongly animo esse fracto, perculso et abiecto) (Att. 3. 2)
- (ambiguous) to be completely prostrated by fear: metu fractum et debilitatum, perculsum esse
- to be cast down, discouraged, in despair: animo esse humili, demisso (more strongly animo esse fracto, perculso et abiecto) (Att. 3. 2)
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti