fragrans

Translingual

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragrans.

Noun

fragrans m or f or n

1. fragrant

Derived terms

• Callisia fragrans
• Clitocybe fragrans
• Dracaena fragrans
• Myristica fragrans
• Osmanthus fragrans

 

Latin

Alternative forms

• fraglāns

Etymology

Present active participle of fragrō (“smell”).

Participle

fragrāns (genitive fragrantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. Emitting a smell, smelling; fragrant, sweet scented or smelling.

   Synonyms: odorus, olens

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	fragrāns			fragrantēs	fragrantia
Genitive	fragrantis			fragrantium
Dative	fragrantī			fragrantibus
Accusative	fragrantem	fragrāns		fragrantēs fragrantīs	fragrantia
Ablative	fragrante fragrantī1			fragrantibus
Vocative	fragrāns			fragrantēs	fragrantia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Descendants

• Translingual: fragrans
• Catalan: fragant
• English: fragrant
• French: fragrant
• Galician: fragrante
• Italian: fragrante
• Portuguese: fragrante
• Romanian: fragrant
• Sicilian: ciaguranti
• Spanish: fragante

References

• “fragrans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fragrans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fragrans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Paronyms

• flagrans