frutex

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frutex.

Noun

frutex (plural frutexes or frutices)

  1. (botany) A plant with a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for frutex in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Translations


Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; proposed derivations include:

Compare Latin fruticare (to sprout).

Pronunciation

Noun

frutex m (genitive fruticis); third declension

  1. shrub, bush
  2. trunk (of a tree)
  3. (informal) blockhead

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative frutex fruticēs
Genitive fruticis fruticum
Dative fruticī fruticibus
Accusative fruticem fruticēs
Ablative frutice fruticibus
Vocative frutex fruticēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Portuguese: frútice

References

  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), frutex”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  2. Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 170
  3. Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), frutex”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 554
  • frutex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • frutex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • frutex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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