fractus

English

Etymology

From Latin fractus.

Noun

fractus (plural fracti)

1. (meteorology) A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud.
   • 2013, C. Donald Ahrens, Robert Henson, Meteorology Today, 11th edition, Cengage Learning, page 130:

     FIGURE 5.17 […] The ragged-appearing clouds beneath the nimbostratus are stratus fractus, or 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

Further reading

• List of cloud types on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of frangō (“break, fragment”).

Participle

frāctus (feminine frācta, neuter frāctum, comparative frāctior); first/second-declension participle

1. broken, shattered, having been broken.
2. vanquished, defeated, having been defeated.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	frāctus	frācta	frāctum		frāctī	frāctae	frācta
genitive	frāctī	frāctae	frāctī		frāctōrum	frāctārum	frāctōrum
dative	frāctō	frāctae	frāctō		frāctīs
accusative	frāctum	frāctam	frāctum		frāctōs	frāctās	frācta
ablative	frāctō	frāctā	frāctō		frāctīs
vocative	frācte	frācta	frāctum		frāctī	frāctae	frācta

Adjective

frāctus (feminine frācta, neuter frāctum); first/second-declension adjective

1. harsh, sour

   Synonyms: ācer, acerbus, asper

2. tired, exhausted

   Synonyms: fessus, cōnfectus, dēfessus, languidus

   Antonym: vīvus

3. languid, soft, cutesy
4. destroyed, demolished, unheartened

   Synonym: dēmissus

5. 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.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	frāctus	frācta	frāctum		frāctī	frāctae	frācta
genitive	frāctī	frāctae	frāctī		frāctōrum	frāctārum	frāctōrum
dative	frāctō	frāctae	frāctō		frāctīs
accusative	frāctum	frāctam	frāctum		frāctōs	frāctās	frācta
ablative	frāctō	frāctā	frāctō		frāctīs
vocative	frācte	frācta	frāctum		frāctī	frāctae	frācta

Related terms

• frāctiō
• frangō
• frangibilis

Descendants

• Aromanian: frãmtu
• Friulian: frant
• Galician: freita, afreitas
• Italian: franto, fratto
• Ladin: frant
• Old French: frait, fret
• Old Spanish: frecho
• Romanian: frânt
• Sicilian: frantu

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’s 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.
  • to be cast down, discouraged, in despair: animo esse humili, demisso (more strongly animo esse fracto, perculso et abiecto) (Att. 3. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be completely prostrated by fear: metu fractum et debilitatum, perculsum esse
    
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti