fretum

== English == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Latin fretum (“strait, channel”). Doublet of fret (“strait; channel”). === Noun === fretum (plural freta) A strait; a channel. Synonym: fret == Latin == === Etymology === Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to brew, boil”) with the suffix *-eto-, but the zero-grade is inexplicable. In this case related to ferveō, fretāle and dēfrutum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfrɛ.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfrɛː.tum] === Noun === fretum n (genitive fretī); second declension strait, sound, estuary, channel. the strait of Sicily Sicily the seas. turmoil ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== fretēnsis fretus ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “fretum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fretum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "fretum", 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) “fretum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.