frutectum

frŭtectum or frutētum, i, n. [contr. from fruticetum], a place full of shrubs or bushes.

• I Lit.: ager frutectis aut arboribus obsessus, Col. 3, 11, 3: rosa silvestris in frutecto, Plin. 25, 2, 6, § 17: tenebrosa, Prud. adv. Symm. 2, 872: acuta, id. Psych. 443; Vulg. Jer. 11, 16.—*
• II Transf., a shrub: id frutectum (sc. cinnamum), Sol. 30, § 25.

frutectum (frutētum), ī, n. (st. fruticetum von frutex), I) das Gesträuch, Gebüsch, Sing., Plin. 25, 7: Plur., Col. 3, 11, 3. Plin. 18, 46. Gell. 19, 12, 9. Apul. met. 4, 1. – II) übtr., der Strauch, Solin. 30, 25.

frutectum [CL], fructetum [LL] 1 thorn-bush, briar; b (for hedging); c (fig.). Aldh. Aen. 93. 6 (v. densus 1a); nam filicem pro fruge, rubum pro vite, frutectum / pro ficu, salices pro nuce, credo, ferunt L. Durh. Dial. II 135 (cf. Matth. vii 16: de tribulis ficus); inter quedam fructeta ‥ semet occuluit Ord. Vit. VIII 19 p. 386; urticarum et veprium juxta densa succrescere ~a conspiciens Gir. GE II 10 p. 213; quicquid terre ‥ fructectis mundavit Cart. Rams. II 214 (v. exstirpare 1c); 1263 cum ‥ ceteris quodammodo spinarum aculeis et fruitectis hostilibus dissipatis, Babilonice tantum radicis offendiculum habeat terra AncC LV 2.  b 1436 in cariacione et operacione ~orum pro clauso domini Willelmi B. militis, ‥ v s. viij d. Ac. Durh. 233.  c perniciosa facinorum ~a velut spissa virgultorum vimina lentis frondibus succrescunt Aldh. VirgP 13; evulsis discordiarum, vituperationum, jurgiorum, murmurationum ceterorumque frutectis [ed.PL XCIV: fructetis] vitiorum Bede Hom. I 1. 26; errabundus per vitiorum ~a Alcuin Ep. 295 p. 453; si in confragosa vita [? l. via] ad plenum nequeat complanari, poterunt tamen ejus abrupta et tuberositates anfractus et fructeta diminui, ut expeditius pateat ad currendum J. Godard Ep. 221. 2 land covered with thorn-bushes, thicket. inter past[uram] et fructectam DB II 107; 1155 duas carrucatas terre et dimidiam de suo dominio ‥ et ~um quod appellatur Gaitune Rahága Danelaw 108; 1181 sciatis me dedisse ‥ quoddam ~um in territorio de Lavertona, viz. quicquid infra has divisas continetur ‥ Ch. Mowbray 137; c1184 terram in qua ~um sedet Rec. Templars 256; 11‥ iiij acras et dim. de fructeto et iij acras de terra arabili MonA III 332b; 13‥ collem quoque cum ~o de Tinghoudale in quantum nemus durat Cart. Guisburn I 171.

frŭtectum (-tētum), ī, n. (frutex), endroit rempli dʼarbrisseaux, taillis, fourré : Col. Rust. 3, 11, 3 ; Plin. 25, 17 || arbrisseau : Sol. 30, 25.