defrutum

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dēfrŭtum,

i, n. (perh. for defervitum, sc. mustum), must boiled down (acc. to Varr. and Col., to one third; acc. to Plin., only to one half), Varr. ap. Non. 551, 24; Col. 12, 20 sq.; Plin. 14, 9, 11, § 80; Pall. Oct. 18; Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 51; Verg. G. 4, 269.

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