Etymograph

English

fracid

Fracid comes from Latin fracidus ‘mellow, soft’, from fraceō ‘to be rotten, overripe or spoiled’, and ultimately from Proto-Italic *frakēs.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*frakēsreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfracēs‘oil cake: grounds, solid waste coming from the pressing of olives’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfraceō‘to be rotten, overripe or spoiled’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfracidus‘mellow, soft’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1655fracid

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*frakēsreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfracēs‘oil cake: grounds, solid waste coming from the pressing of olives’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfraceō‘to be rotten, overripe or spoiled’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfracidus‘mellow, soft’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1655fracid

Earliest quotation: 1655, Samuel Hartlib: “the fracid ferment of putrifying Bodies”.

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks ‘dregs, sediment’

dross, 1 more

Today it means

adj Rotten from being too ripe; overripe.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *frakēs / fracid

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