foedifragus

Latin

Etymology

foed(us) (“pact, alliance”) +‎ -i- (connecting vowel) + frag-, a stem of the verb frangō (“I break”) +‎ -us (adjective-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /foe̯ˈdi.fra.ɡus/, [foe̯ˈd̪ɪfräɡʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈdi.fra.ɡus/, [feˈd̪iːfräɡus]

Adjective

foedifragus (feminine foedifraga, neuter foedifragum); first/second-declension adjective

1. league-breaking
2. (very rare) perfidious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	foedifragus	foedifraga	foedifragum		foedifragī	foedifragae	foedifraga
Genitive	foedifragī	foedifragae	foedifragī		foedifragōrum	foedifragārum	foedifragōrum
Dative	foedifragō		foedifragō		foedifragīs
Accusative	foedifragum	foedifragam	foedifragum		foedifragōs	foedifragās	foedifraga
Ablative	foedifragō	foedifragā	foedifragō		foedifragīs
Vocative	foedifrage	foedifraga	foedifragum		foedifragī	foedifragae	foedifraga

Descendants

• → English: fedifragous
• → Italian: fedifrago
• → Sicilian: fidìfracu

References

• “foedifragus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• foedifragus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• foedifragus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.