fragum

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *frāgom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₂ǵ-om, from either *dʰreh₂ǵ- (“berry”) (compare Albanian dredhëz, Sanskrit द्राक्षा (drā́kṣā)) or *sróh₂gs (“grape”) (compare Ancient Greek ῥώξ (rhṓx) (whence Greek ρώγα (róga)), Albanian rrush).[1] The divergent phonetics and semantics of the comparanda suggest a foreign Wanderwort.

Pronunciation

Noun

frāgum n (genitive frāgī); second declension

  1. (usually in the plural) strawberry (Fragaria vesca)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative frāgum frāga
genitive frāgī frāgōrum
dative frāgō frāgīs
accusative frāgum frāga
ablative frāgō frāgīs
vocative frāgum frāga

Descendants

References

  • “fragum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fragum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fragum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “frāga, -ōrum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 239
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