fragrans

Latin

Alternative forms

• frāglāns

Etymology

Present active participle of frāgrō (“smell”).

Participle

frāgrāns (genitive frāgrantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. Emitting a smell, smelling; fragrant, sweet scented or smelling.

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	frāgrāns			frāgrantēs	frāgrantia
Genitive	frāgrantis			frāgrantium
Dative	frāgrantī			frāgrantibus
Accusative	frāgrantem	frāgrāns		frāgrantēs frāgrantīs	frāgrantia
Ablative	frāgrante frāgrantī1			frāgrantibus
Vocative	frāgrāns			frāgrantēs	frāgrantia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Descendants

• English: fragrant, fragrance

References

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