English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin frutex.

Noun

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frutex (plural frutexes or frutices)

  1. (botany, archaic) A bush; a shrub

Translations

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Latin

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Etymology

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Uncertain; proposed derivations include:

Compare Latin fruticare (to sprout).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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frutex m (genitive fruticis); third declension

  1. shrub, bush
  2. trunk (of a tree)
  3. (informal, derogatory) blockhead
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:homo stultus

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative frutex fruticēs
genitive fruticis fruticum
dative fruticī fruticibus
accusative fruticem fruticēs
ablative frutice fruticibus
vocative frutex fruticēs

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: frutex
  • Italian: frutice
  • Portuguese: frútice

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “frutex”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “170”, in 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), 3rd edition, volume 1, 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.