fretus

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Italic *frētos, from earlier *θrētos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr-eh₁-tos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-. ==== Adjective ==== frētus (feminine frēta, neuter frētum); first/second-declension adjective trusting to, relying on, depending upon; supported by or leaning on something [with ablative or dative] voce fretus ― relying on the rumor numero fretus ― relying on the number ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Descendants ===== → Italian: freto (learned) === Etymology 2 === From fretum (“strait, channel”). ==== Noun ==== fretus m (genitive fretūs); fourth declension strait, channel ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. === References === “fretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers fretus in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti "fretus", 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) “fretus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.