The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fretum
Fretum \Fre"tum\, n.; pl. Freta. [L.] A strait, or arm of the sea.
Wiktionary
fretum
n. strait; channel.
Usage examples of "fretum".
After some time spent in these parts, he builds the city Hecatompulos, said before to have been built by Osiris: and then traverses the whole of Africa westward, till he arrives at the Fretum Gaditanum.