fragor

See also: frågor

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin fragor (“a breaking to pieces”), from frangere (“to break”).

Noun

fragor (plural fragors)

1. A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash.
   • Isaac Watts

     The direful fragor, when some southern blast / Tears from the Alps a ridge of knotty oaks […]

Etymology 2

By confusion with fragrant.

Noun

fragor (plural fragors)

1. (obsolete, proscribed) A strong or sweet scent; fragrance.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir T. Herbert to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fragor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Etymology

From frangō (“break, shatter”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfra.ɡor/, [ˈfräɡɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfra.ɡor/, [ˈfräːɡor]

Noun

fragor m (genitive fragōris); third declension

1. a breaking, shattering
2. a crash

   Sextus magnum fragorem audit. - Sextus hears the great crash.

3. an uproar, din

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fragor	fragōrēs
Genitive	fragōris	fragōrum
Dative	fragōrī	fragōribus
Accusative	fragōrem	fragōrēs
Ablative	fragōre	fragōribus
Vocative	fragor	fragōrēs

Related terms

• fragilis
• fragmentum
• fragōsus
• frangō

References

• “fragor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fragor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fragor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a storm accompanied by heavy claps of thunder: tempestas cum magno fragore (caeli) tonitribusque (Liv. 1. 16)
    

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragor (“a breaking to pieces”), from frangere (“to break”).

Noun

fragor m (plural fragores)

1. clamour, din