fractus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin fractus. === Noun === fractus (plural fracti) (meteorology) A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud. ==== 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 === === Further reading === List of cloud types on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Latin == === Etymology === Perfect passive participle of frangō (“break, fragment”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfraːk.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfrak.tus] === Participle === frāctus (feminine frācta, neuter frāctum); first/second-declension participle broken, shattered, having been broken. vanquished, defeated, having been defeated. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === Adjective === frāctus (feminine frācta, neuter frāctum, comparative frāctior, superlative frāctissimus); 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. ==== Related terms ==== frāctiō frangō frangibilis ==== Descendants ==== === 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, 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co. Dizionario Latino, Olivetti