frux

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *frūks, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg-s, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“fruit”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fruːks/, [fruːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fruks/, [fruks]

Noun

frūx f (genitive frūgis); third declension

1. produce, crop, fruit

   Synonyms: seges, prōventus, frūctus

2. (in the plural) supplies
3. (figuratively) fruit, result, success

   Synonyms: successus, frūctus, effectus, ēventus, exitus, prōventus

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	frūx	frūgēs
Genitive	frūgis	frūgum
Dative	frūgī	frūgibus
Accusative	frūgem	frūgēs
Ablative	frūge	frūgibus
Vocative	frūx	frūgēs

Derived terms

• frūgī (originally the dative singular, but used adjectively)
• frūgālis

Descendants

• → Spanish: frugívoro, frugivorismo.
• Galician: fruxe

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^[1], 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