Definition - Numen - The Latin Lexicon - An Online Latin Dictionary

Orthography ID = 2023258

I don't know this word, but don't make a flashcard!

I don't know this word, and I want a flashcard!

I know this word. Hide it from now on.

There's something wrong with this entry.

See the complete paradigm.

LNS

frutectum, frutectī

(frutētum, frutētī)

contr. from fruticetum, fruticetum

noun (n., 2^nd declension)

a place full of shrubs or bushes
a shrub

Abbreviations

frutectum or frutētum, i, n. contr. from fruticetum, a place full of shrubs or bushes. Lit.: ager frutectis aut arboribus obsessus, Col. 3, 11, 3: rosa silvestris in frutecto, Plin. 25, 2, 6, § 17: tenebrosa, Prud. adv. Symm. 2, 872: acuta, id. Psych. 443; Vulg. Jer. 11, 16.

—* Transf., a shrub: id frutectum (sc. cinnamum), Sol. 30, § 25.