anfractus

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ãːˈfraːk.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aɱˈfrak.tus] === Etymology 1 === From *ānfringō + -tus (forming action noun), or directly from ambi- +‎ frangō +‎ -tus. ==== Noun ==== ānfrāctus m (genitive ānfrāctūs); fourth declension bend, curve, turning curvature circuit, revolution ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== ānfrāctuōsus === Etymology 2 === Participial adjective from *ānfringō, or directly from ambi- +‎ frangō +‎ -tus. ==== Adjective ==== ānfrāctus (feminine ānfrācta, neuter ānfrāctum); first/second-declension adjective winding, bending crooked, bent ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Further reading === “anfractus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “anfractus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “anfractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "anfractus", 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) “anfractus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.