defrutum
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English
Etymology
Noun
defrutum (uncountable)
- A reduction of must in Ancient Roman cuisine, made by boiling down grape juice or must in large kettles until reduced to half of the original volume.
See also
Latin
Etymology
From dē- + Proto-Italic *frutom, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to brew, boil”), or per Schrijver's reconstruction, *bʰrew- (“to brew, boil”), perhaps interrelated with variant semantics.
Cognate with Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“broth”), Irish bruth (“heat”), Ancient Greek βρῦτος (brûtos, “beer made of barley”) and ultimately related also to ferveō and fermentum.[1]
Pronunciation
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈdeː.fru.tum/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈde.fru.tum/,
Noun
dēfrutum n (genitive dēfrutī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dēfrutum | dēfruta |
| genitive | dēfrutī | dēfrutōrum |
| dative | dēfrutō | dēfrutīs |
| accusative | dēfrutum | dēfruta |
| ablative | dēfrutō | dēfrutīs |
| vocative | dēfrutum | dēfruta |
Derived terms
- dēfrutō (“I reduce to a syrup”)
References
- “defrutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “defrutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “defrutum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 165, 213, 215-6.