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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *frekʷents, likely from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ- (“to stuff”), cognate with fraxō (“I patrol”).[1] Alternatively, possibly associated with farciō (“I cram, stuff”), Ancient Greek φράσσω (phrássō, “I fence in, block”), and Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”), compare English berg.[2]
Pronunciation
Adjective
frequēns (genitive frequentis, comparative frequentior, superlative frequentissimus, adverb frequenter); third-declension one-termination adjective
- crowded, crammed, packed
- filled with a multitude, filled, full, crowded, populous
- Synonyms: plēnus, refertus, implētus, explētus, complētus
- Antonyms: vānus, vacuus
- frequent, repeated
- Synonym: crēber
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “frequens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “frequens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- frequens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to issue a proclamation calling on the senators to assemble in full force: edicere, ut senatus frequens adsit (Fam. 11. 6. 2)
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 110
- ^ Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Brill, 2008, p. 242
- ^ idem, p. 202