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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin fragor (“a breaking to pieces”), from frangō (“to break”).
Noun
fragor (plural fragors)
- A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash.
1709, Isaac Watts, Horae Lyricae:The direful fragor, when some southern blast / Tears from the Alps a ridge of knotty oaks
Etymology 2
From the above, by confusion with the root of fragrant.
Noun
fragor (plural fragors)
- (obsolete, proscribed) A strong or sweet scent; fragrance.
1634, T H, A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, , London: William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:it seems offensive; and tasted, penetrates a strong brain by its fragor
References
“fragor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Etymology
From frangō (“break, shatter”) + -or.
Pronunciation
Noun
fragor m (genitive fragōris); third declension
- a breaking, shattering
- a crash
- Sextus magnum fragorem audit ― Sextus hears the great crash.
- an uproar
- Synonyms: sēditiō, tumultus, perculsus, concursus, inquiētūdō
- a clamor, din
- Synonyms: clangor, strepitus, clāmor
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
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 Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- fragor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a storm accompanied by heavy claps of thunder: tempestas cum magno fragore (caeli) tonitribusque (Liv. 1. 16)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fragor (“a breaking to pieces”), from frangere (“to break”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fragor m (plural fragores)
- bang, boom (sudden percussive noise)
- Synonyms: estrépito, estridor, estrondo, estampido
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fragor (“a breaking to pieces”), from frangere (“to break”).
Noun
fragor m (plural fragores)
- clamour, din
- heat
En el fragor de la batalla, es importante mantenernos firmes, unidos.- In the heat of battle, it is important to stand firm together.
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