English
fretum
Fretum comes from Latin fretum ‘strait, channel’.
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, English fretum
Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfretumWiktionary, English fretum‘strait, channel’
- EnglishtodayfretumWiktionary, English fretum
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- ‘to brew, boil’
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Today it means
noun A strait; a channel.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “fretum”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Latin fretum / fretum