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7-letter words (1 found)

FRACTUS,

6-letter words (6 found)

CRAFTS,CRUFTS,CRUSTA,CURATS,FRACTS,FRUSTA,

5-letter words (29 found)

ARCUS,CARTS,CRAFT,CRUFT,CRUST,CURAT,CURFS,CURST,FACTS,FARTS,FAUTS,FRACT,FRATS,FRAUS,FRUST,FURCA,RAFTS,RATUS,SCARF,SCART,SCAUR,SCRAT,SCUFT,SCURF,SCUTA,SURAT,SUTRA,TUFAS,TURFS,

4-letter words (53 found)

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3-letter words (33 found)

ACT,AFT,ARC,ARF,ARS,ART,ATS,AUF,CAF,CAR,CAT,CRU,CUR,CUT,FAR,FAS,FAT,FRA,FUR,RAS,RAT,RUC,RUT,SAC,SAR,SAT,SAU,SUR,TAR,TAS,TAU,UTA,UTS,

2-letter words (10 found)

AR,AS,AT,FA,FU,ST,TA,UR,US,UT,

You can make 132 words from fractus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of fractus

fractus

Etymology

From Latin fractus.

Noun

fractus (plural fracti)

  1. (meteorology) A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud.

Usage notes

Associated with the cloud genera cumulus and stratus. That is, one may speak of cumulus fractus and stratus fractus (respectively, formerly called fractocumulus and fractostratus).

Derived terms

  • stratus fractus

Related terms

  • fractocumulus
  • fractostratus

References

Further reading

  • List of cloud types on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of frangō (“break, fragment”).

Participle

frāctus (feminine frācta, neuter frāctum, comparative frāctior); first/second-declension participle

  1. broken, shattered, having been broken.
  2. vanquished, defeated, having been defeated.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Adjective

frāctus (feminine frācta, neuter frāctum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. harsh, sour
    Synonyms: ācer, acerbus, asper
  2. tired, exhausted
    Synonyms: fessus, cōnfectus, dēfessus, languidus
    Antonym: vīvus
  3. languid, soft, cutesy
  4. destroyed, demolished, unheartened
    Synonym: dēmissus
  5. feeble, weak
    Synonyms: dēbilis, languidus, aeger, fessus, īnfirmus, tenuis, mollis, inops, obnoxius
    Antonyms: praevalēns, fortis, potis, potēns, validus, strēnuus, compos

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Related terms

  • frāctiō
  • frangō
  • frangibilis

Descendants

References

  • “fractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fractus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • fractus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

Source: wiktionary.org