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fretus1

relying on

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Where it lives

Ordo Urbium Nobilium 4 · 38.24/10k
Dittochaeon 3 · 24.51/10k
Mosella 7 · 21.53/10k
Achilleis 14 · 19.43/10k
Cimon 1 · 18.66/10k
Octavia 8 · 15.29/10k
Argonautica 49 · 13.18/10k
Epistulae 33 · 12.91/10k
Agamemnon 7 · 12.59/10k
de Bello Gothico 5 · 12.4/10k
Troades 7 · 10.28/10k
In Eutropium 7 · 9.75/10k

Densest 12 of 142 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. fretus — de Vaan

fretus 'relying on' [adj. ο/α] (Naev.+) Pit. *freto-. It cognates: V.frite [abL/loc.sg. or adv.] 'relying on' or 'with the aid of from *fret(o)-. PIE *dhr-ehrto-. IE cognates: see s.v.firmus. Since the PIE root did not end in a laryngeal, the only way to explain fretus as a ptc. is to a (stative) verb 'to rely' in *-e-, like EM suggest This would require *-ehrto- in the vein of Nussbaum 1999a: 409, who discusses the … — [de Vaan, s.v. fretus, p. 256]

2. frētus — Lewis & Short

frētus, a, um, adj.root dhar-, Sanscr. dhar-ā-mi, hold, support; v. frēnum,

I leaning or supported on something, in a good or bad sense; relying or depending upon, trusting to; daring (class.; cf.: fultus, nixus).—Constr. with abl., rarely with dat., with inf. (poet.), and with objectclause.

(a) With abl.: omnes mortales dis sunt freti, Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 38 sq.: magnanimi viri freti virtute et viribus, id. Am. 1, 1, 56: ingenio ejus, id. Capt. 2, 2, 100: dote, id. Men. 5, 2, 17: vobis, Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 33: vobis fretus, Cic. Planc. 42, 103: fretus intellegentiā vestrā, id. N. D. 1, 19, 49: fretus conscientiā officii mei, id. Fam. 3, 7, 6: gratiā Bruti, id. Att. 5, 21, 12: ingenio, id. de Or. 2, 24, 103: juventā, Verg. A. 5, 430 al.: amicitiis, Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 7, 25: pondere enim fretae (res) stant, Lucr. 6, 1058: ferro et animis, Liv. 9, 40, 4: malitiā suā, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 43: multitudine solā, Liv. 9, 35, 3.—

(b) With dat. (only in Liv.; v. Zumpt, Gram. § 413): multitudo hostium, nulli rei praeterquam numero freta, Liv. 6, 13, 1; cf.: tamquam constantissimae rei, fortunae, id. 4, 37, 6; so, discordiae hostium, id. 6, 31, 6: haec civitas Samnitium infidae adversus Romanos societati freta, id. 8, 22, 7.—

(g) With inf.: (naves) pontum irrumpere fretae Longius, daring, venturing, Stat. Th. 6, 23.—

(d) With object-clause: satis fretus esse etiam nunc tolerando certamini legatum, Liv. 10, 5, 5: fretus excipi posse (hostem), qua venturum sciebat, Curt. 7, 7, 31.

3. frētus — Lewis & Short

frētus, ūs, m.1. fretus,

I reliance, confidence (post-class.): animi tui fretu, Symm. Ep. 2, 82.

4. frĕtus — Lewis & Short

frĕtus, ūs, m.,

I a strait; v. fretum.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. fretus (scan pp. 256-257; entry #628). Root candidates: *freto-, *dher-, *bher-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. frétus (scan pp. 277-278; entry #4343).

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