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What it meant

1. frăces — Lewis & Short

frăces, um (sing. form FRAX;

I v. the foll.), m. kindr. with FRAG, frango; cf. fragosus; lit., broken bits, fragments; hence, grounds or dregs of oil: FRAX trugi/a ga/rou; fraces e)lai/ou trugi/a: u(po/stasis e)lai/ou; fracere e)ci/stasqai; fracidus u(pe/rwros, Gloss. Philox.: oleum quam diutissime in amurca et in fracibus erit, tam deterrimum erit, Cato, R. R. 64 fin.; 66 fin.; Col. 6, 13, 3; Plin. 15, 6, 6, § 21 sq. al.; Vitr. 7, 1; Grat. Cyneg. 474.

2. fraces — Walde–Hofmann

fraces, -um f. ,Olhefe* (seit Cato, ebenso fracidus „weich, mürb, faul“ [dies rom.) fracéscó, -ere „ranzig, stinkend werden*; übtr. fracebunt : displicebunt Enn. bei Fest. 90 (flacce&bunt Non.]): nach Frochde BB. 13, 455, Persson Beitr. 929, Reichelt KZ. 46, 321 ff. aus ‚frac&s — fragor. 539 *dhrok-s zu Wz. *dher£gh- „trüber Bodensatz* (Erw. von *dher-, s. foria) in an. dregg f. (Pl. dreggjar) „Hefe“, apr. dragios, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. fraces, p. 570]

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. fraces (scan pp. 570-571; entry #1157). Root candidates: *dher-, *dhraghia-, *dherg-.

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