frondia

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Latin

Etymology

Collective noun based on the neuter plural of frondeus (“leafy”), likely inspired by folia (originally "leaves", but often found as a collective meaning "foliage" in Late Latin). Attested in the Vetus Itala[1] and also a late gloss.[2]

Noun

frondia n pl (Late Latin)

  1. foliage

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “frons, -dis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 818
  2. ^ Georg Getz, Carl Gustav Löwe, Wilhelm C. Heraeus (1894) Corpus glossariorum Latinorum: Placidus Liber glossarum, glossaria reliqua‎, volume V, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner Verlag, page 495: “Comat ornat frondia”
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