Vegetabilis, full of life, animating, from vegetare, frequentative of vegere to quicken, arouse, vegetus, vigorous, active, cf.
Some roots are reduplicated wholly or in part with a frequentative meaning, and there are traces of gemination of radicals.
Dictare, frequentative of dicere, to speak).
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Tractare, to treat, handle, frequentative of trahere, tractus, to draw.