fretum

English

Unadapted borrowing from Latin fretum (“strait, channel”)

fretum (plural freta)

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[1].[2]

fretum n (genitive fretī); second declension

strait, sound, estuary, channel.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Against Vatinius Ch. 5:
  venerisne ad fretum per Mauretaniam?
  did you come to the strait via Mauritania?
the seas.
turmoil

Second declension.

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, 1883–1887)
fretum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Pokorny, Julius (1959), “bh(e)rēi-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 132-133
De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “fretum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 242

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