adjective
frūgī
frūgī (indeclinable, comparative frūgālior, superlative frūgālissimus, adverb frūgāliter)
Meaning
- indeclinablefrugal, worthy, honest, useful
frūgi, v. frux, II. B.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
frūgī adj. indecl.
dat predic. of frux, useful, fit, proper, worthy, honest, discreet, virtuous, temperate, frugal (for comp. and sup. see frugalis): frugi es; ubi? T.: frugi hominem dici: homines plane frugi ac sobrii: Hominis frugi officium, T.: frugi dicatur, H.: Sum bonus et frugi, H.: mancipium, H.—Of things: cenula, Iu.
Origins
The adjective is an adaptation of the dative singular of frūx, originally meaning "(fit) for food".