frequens

Latin

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

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

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
nominative	frequēns		frequentēs	frequentia
genitive	frequentis		frequentium
dative	frequentī		frequentibus
accusative	frequentem	frequēns	frequentīs frequentēs	frequentia
ablative	frequentī frequente		frequentibus
vocative	frequēns		frequentēs	frequentia

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “frequēns”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 242
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “farciō, -īre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 202

“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