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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *frūks, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg-s, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“fruit”).
Pronunciation
Noun
frūx f (genitive frūgis); third declension
- produce, crop, fruit
- Synonyms: seges, prōventus, frūctus
- (in the plural) supplies
- (figuratively) fruit, result, success
- Synonyms: successus, frūctus, effectus, ēventus, exitus, prōventus
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
- frūgī (originally the dative singular, but used adjectively)
- frūgālis
Descendants
References
- “frux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “frux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- frux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the earth brings forth fruit, crops: terra effert (more rarely fert, but not profert) fruges
- the earth brings forth fruit abundantly: terra fundit fruges
- to recover one's reason, be reasonable again: ad bonam frugem se recipere
- (ambiguous) to be economical: diligentem, frugi esse
- (ambiguous) a good, useful slave: frugi (opp. nequam) servus