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Definition of Fretum

Fretum
Fretum Fre"tum, n.; pl. Freta. [L.] A strait, or arm of the sea.

Meaning of Fretum from wikipedia

- الزقاق 'the p****age sea') and by the Romans Fretum Gaditanum (Strait of Cadiz). In Latin it has been called Fretum Herculeum, based on the name from antiquity...
- classical literature ****espontium Pelagus, **** ****esponti****, and Fretum ****esponti****. It was so called from ****e, the daughter of Athamas, who...
- The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait, historically known as the Dover Narrows, is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel, marking the boundary...
- Sardinian: Buccas de Bonifatziu; Ligurian: Bocche de Bunifazziu; Latin: Fretum Galli****, Fretum Taphros) is the strait between Corsica and Sardinia, named after...
- labelled as "dry valley". They are named after mythical or imaginary rivers. A fretum (plural freta) is a strait of liquid connecting two larger liquid bodies...
- by me, Michael Lok the Elder, touching the strait of sea commonly called Fretum Anian, in the South Sea, through the northwest p****age of Meta Incognita...
- relief depicting Raphael holding a scroll on which is written: "Efficia fretum quietum" ("Keep the Gulf quiet"). On July 8, 1497, when Vasco da Gama set...
- known as Le Maire." 1633's map of Strait of Magellan, showing Strait Le Maire at the right, marked Fretum le Maire (Latin) and Straet Le Maire (Dutch)...
- frequency, frequent, frequentation, frequentative, infrequency, infrequent fretum fret- strait transfretation, transfrete frīgus frigor- cold frigorific †frīgusculum...
- (illustrated below) Raphael holds a scroll on which is written: "Efficia fretum quietum" ("Keep the Gulf quiet"). The subject had an appeal to merchants...