fretus

From Proto-Italic *frētos, from earlier *θrētos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr-eh₁-tos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-.

frētus (feminine frēta, neuter frētum); first/second-declension adjective

1. trusting to, relying on, depending upon; supported by or leaning on something [with ablative or dative]

   voce fretus ― relying on the rumor

   numero fretus ― relying on the number

   Datis, etsi non aequum locum videbat suis, tamen fretus numero copiarum suarum confligere cupiebat

   (The general) Datis, however not seeing a proper place for his troops, relying on the number of his armies longed to battle. (Cornelius Nepos, De Viris Illustribus, Miltiades, V.)

First/second-declension adjective.

From fretum (“strait, channel”).

fretus m (genitive fretūs); fourth declension

1. strait, channel

Fourth-declension noun.

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