Fretumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fretum (plural freta)

1. A strait; a channel.

   Synonym: fret

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈfrɛ.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfrɛː.t̪um]

名詞

fretum n (genitive fretī); second declension

1. strait, sound, estuary, channel.
   • Marcus Tullius Cicero, Against Vatinius Ch. 5:

     Venerisne ad fretum per Mauretaniam?

     Did you come to the strait via Mauritania?

   1. the strait of Sicily
   2. Sicily
      • c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili 1.29:

        Relinquebatur, ut ex longuinquioribus regionibus Galliae Picenique et a freto naves essent expectandae.

        All that was left him was to wait for the arrival of ships from the remoter areas of Gaul and Picenum, and from Sicily.

2. the seas.
   • Publius Vergilius Maro, Eclogues 1:

     Et freta destituent nūdōs in lītore piscēs.

     And the seas shall leave their fish bare on the shore.

3. turmoil

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

• fretēnsis

派生した語

• Catalan: freu
  • → Galician: freu
• Occitan: frieu

参照

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’s 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.