frequens

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfre.kʷens/, [ˈfrɛ.kᶣẽːs]

frequēns (genitive frequentis); third declension

1. crowded, crammed
2. frequent, repeated

Third declension.

• comparative: frequentior, superlative: frequentissimus

• frequentō

• 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, 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 I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 110