different between cumulus vs fractus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cumulus. Doublet of comble.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?kju?mj?l?s/
• Rhymes: -u?mj?l?s
• Hyphenation: cu?mu?lus

Noun

cumulus (plural cumuli)

1. A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers and even become cumulonimbus clouds.
   • 2007 September 1, "Who’s afraid of Google?: The world’s internet superpower faces testing times", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8544, page 9,

     Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google. The issues are best parted into two cumuli: a set of “public” arguments about how to regulate Google; and a set of “private” ones for Google’s managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get through the coming storm.

2. A mound or heap.

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cumulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kumulus/, [?kumulus?]
• Syllabification: cu?mu?lus

Noun

cumulus

1. cumulus (cloud)

Declension

Synonyms

• cumuluspilvi
• kumpupilvi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ku-m-olo, from *?ewh?- (“to swell”); see also Lithuanian saunas (“firm, fit, solid, capable”), Ancient Greek ??? (kú?), and Sanskrit ?????? (?vayati, “swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ku.mu.lus/, [?k?m????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ku.mu.lus/, [?ku?mulus]

Noun

cumulus m (genitive cumul?); second declension

1. heap, pile
2. surplus
3. summit

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• cumul?

Descendants

References

• cumulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cumulus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cumulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cumulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• cumulus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

English

Etymology

From Latin fractus.

Noun

fractus (plural fracti)

1. (meteorology) A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud.
   • 2013, C. Donald Ahrens, Robert Henson, Meteorology Today, 11th Edition, Cengage Learning, page 130,

     FIGURE 5.17 […] The ragged-appearing clouds beneath the nimbostratus are stratus fractus, or 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).

Related terms

• fractocumulus
• fractostratus

References

Further reading

• List of cloud types on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

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

Participle

fr?ctus (feminine fr?cta, neuter fr?ctum); first/second-declension participle

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

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

comparative: fr?ctior, superlative: fr?ctissimus.

Related terms

• fr?cti?
• frang?
• 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, 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.