fertum

== Latin == === Etymology === From Old Latin ferctum, firctum (“a ritual bread made with honey and oil”), from Proto-Italic *ferktom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-g-tos, from the root *bʰer- (“to roast, bake, boil, cook, burn”); cognate with Ancient Greek φρύγω (phrúgō, “I roast, bake”), Sanskrit भृज्ज् (bhṛjj, “to roast, grill, fry”), भृग् (bhṛg, “the crackling of fire”), Old Irish bairgen (“bread”), Oscan fertalis, Umbrian frehtu. Related to frīgō (“I fry”); doublet of frīctum (“fried”). === Noun === fertum n (genitive fertī); second declension A sort of sacrificial cake ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === “fertum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "fertum", 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) “fertum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.