fracesco

frăcesco, fracŭi, 3, v. inch. n. [FRACEO; v. fraces and FRACEBUNT],

to become soft or mellow , to rot , spoil : olea lecta si nimium diu fuit in acervis, caldore fracescit, et oleum foetidum fit, Varr. R. R. 55, 5 sq.; so, oleum, becomes rancid , Col. 1, 6, 18: (terram cretosam) sinito quatriduum fracescat; ubi bene fracuerit, rutro concidito, to become soft , tractable , Cato R. R. 128.