different between shreds vs fractus

English

Noun

shreds

1. plural of shred

Anagrams

• sherds

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.