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frenum
English
Alternative forms
- fraenum, frænum (hypercorrect, nonstandard)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fr?num (“bridle, curb, bit”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?i?.n?m/
Noun
frenum (plural frena or frenums)
- (anatomy) Synonym of frenulum.
Derived terms
- frenal (adjective)
References
- “frenum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “frenum”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
Latin
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?er- (“to hold”). Cognates include fer?, ferm? and firmus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?fre?.num/, [?f?e?n???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?fre.num/, [?f???num]
Noun
fr?num n (genitive fr?n?); second declension
- bridle, harness, curb, bit
- (transferred sense):
- means of guiding or governing; restraint, check, limit
- (poetic) horse, steed, charger
- (in general):
- (post-Classical, rare) that which holds things together; band
- (anatomy) ligament which attaches the inside of the foreskin to the glans
Inflection
Second-declension noun (neuter).
- Nominative plural is mostly fr?ni with fr?na occurring more in poets.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- frenum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- frenum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- frenum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- frenum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- frenum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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fraenulum
English
Alternative forms
- frenulum
- frænulum
- frenum
- fraenum
- frænum
Pronunciation
- (US)
- IPA(key): /?f?i?nj?l?m/
Noun
fraenulum (plural fraenula)
- see frenulum
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