fragor
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin fragor (“a breaking to pieces”), from frangere (“to break”).
Noun
fragor (plural fragors)
- 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 […]
- Isaac Watts
Etymology 2
By confusion with fragrant.
Noun
fragor (plural fragors)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
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
- a breaking, shattering
- a crash
- Sextus magnum fragorem audit. - Sextus hears the great crash.
- 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
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)
- a storm accompanied by heavy claps of thunder: tempestas cum magno fragore (caeli) tonitribusque (Liv. 1. 16)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fragor (“a breaking to pieces”), from frangere (“to break”).
Noun
fragor m (plural fragores)
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