fruor

From Proto-Italic *frūgjōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg-ye-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to use, enjoy”). Akin to Proto-Germanic *brūkaną (“to make use of, consume”), whence English brook (Etymology 1).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfru.or/, [ˈfruɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfru.or/, [ˈfruːor]

fruor (present infinitive fruī, perfect active frūctus sum or fruitus sum); third conjugation, deponent

1. to enjoy; to derive pleasure from

   Synonyms: exhilarō, exsultō, dēlectō, grātulor, congrātulor, gaudeō

   Antonym: displiceō

2. to engage (in)

• The verb fruor and others like it, ūtor, fungor, potior, vescor, and their compounds, regularly govern the ablative case.

• frūnīscor
• frūmen (“sacrificial porridge”)
• fruitiō
• fruitō

• frūctus
• frūx

• → Catalan: fruir
• → Italian: fruire
• → Interlingua: fruer
• → Neapolitan: fruì
• → Portuguese: fruir
• → Spanish: fruir

• “fruor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fruor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fruor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to enjoy the privilege of living; to be alive: vita or hac luce frui
    
  • to solace oneself with the thought..: hoc solacio frui, uti
    
  • to be at leisure: otio frui
    
  • to take one's fill of enjoyment: voluptatibus frui