frequens

From Proto-Italic *frekʷents, likely from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ- (“to stuff”), cognate with fraxō (“I patrol”).^[1] Alternatively, possibly associated with farciō (“I cram, stuff”), Ancient Greek φράσσω (phrássō, “I fence in, block”), and Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”), compare English berg.^[2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfrɛ.kʷẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfrɛː.kʷens]

frequēns (genitive frequentis, comparative frequentior, superlative frequentissimus, adverb frequenter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. crowded, crammed, packed
2. filled with a multitude, filled, full, crowded, populous

   Synonyms: plēnus, refertus, implētus, explētus, complētus

   Antonyms: vānus, vacuus

3. frequent, repeated

   Synonym: crēber

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• frequentō

• “frequens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “frequens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• frequens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to issue a proclamation calling on the senators to assemble in full force: edicere, ut senatus frequens adsit (Fam. 11. 6. 2)
    
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 110