different between stratus vs fractus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stratus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?e?t?s/, /?st?æt?s/
• Rhymes: -e?t?s
• Hyphenation: stra?tus

Noun

stratus (usually uncountable, plural strati)

1. (meteorology) A principal, low-level cloud type in the form of a gray layer with a rather uniform base, usually not associated with precipitation, and capable of producing corona phenomena and a weak, uniform luminance; abbreviated St.

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stratus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?str?tus/, [?s?t?r?t?us?]
• Rhymes: -?tus
• Syllabification: stra?tus

Noun

stratus

1. Synonym of sumupilvi (“stratus (cloud)”)

Declension

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of stern? (“spread out”). Diachronically, from Proto-Italic *str?tos, from Proto-Indo-European *str?h?tós. Cognate with Proto-Celtic *stratos (“valley”), ealier *“spread-out land”, Ancient Greek ??????? (str?tós, “bestrewn, spread, laid out; smooth”), ??????? (stratós, “army, war band”), and Sanskrit ????? (st?tá, “bestrewn, spread (out); extended, spacious; covered; overthrown”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?stra?.tus/, [?s?(t?)?ä?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?stra.tus/, [?st????t?us]

Participle

str?tus (feminine str?ta, neuter str?tum); first/second-declension participle

1. spread, stretched out, spread out, having been spread out
2. (rare) calmed, stilled, moderated, having been calmed
3. covered, spread with, scattered with, bestrewn with, having been covered (with)
   1. (of a road, path) paved, covered, having been paved
4. stretched on the ground, cast down, struck down, prostrated, having been struck down
   1. (by extension) knocked to the ground, demolished, razed, levelled, flattened, having been razed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

str?tus m (genitive str?t?s); fourth declension

1. the act of spreading, strewing
2. a bed-covering, coverlet, quilt, blanket
3. vocative singular of str?tus

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (bed-covering): str?tum

Descendants

Noun

str?t?s

1. nominative plural of str?tus
2. genitive singular of str?tus
3. accusative plural of str?tus
4. vocative plural of str?tus

References

• stratus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stratus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stratus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• stratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• stratus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stratus in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Romanian

Etymology

From French stratus, from Latin stratus.

Noun

stratus m (uncountable)

1. stratus

Declension

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.