frenum

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frēnum (“bridle, curb, bit”).

Pronunciation

Noun

frenum (plural frena or frenums)

  1. (anatomy) Synonym of frenulum.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *frēnom, from earlier *θrēnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr-eh₁-nom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to hold”). Cognates include ferē, fermē and firmus.

Pronunciation

Noun

frēnum n (genitive frēnī); second declension

  1. bridle, harness, curb, bit
    circumagere frēnīs equōs ― to reverse the direction of horses by the bridle
    addere frēna equīs ― to add the bridles to the horses
  2. (transferred sense):
    1. means of guiding or governing; restraint, check, limit
    2. (poetic) horse, steed, charger
    3. (in general):
      1. (post-classical, rare) that which holds things together; band
      2. (anatomy) ligament which attaches the inside of the foreskin to the glans

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter or otherwise).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative frēnum frēna
frēnī
Genitive frēnī frēnōrum
Dative frēnō frēnīs
Accusative frēnum frēna
frēnōs
Ablative frēnō frēnīs
Vocative frēnum frēna
frēnī
  • Nominative plural is mostly frēnī with frēna occurring more in poets.

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Descendants

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References

  • “frenum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “frenum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • frenum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) with loose reins: freno remisso; effusis habenis
  • “frenum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “frenum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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