fragor

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See also: frågor

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

fragor (plural fragors)

  1. 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)

  1. (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

  1. a breaking, shattering
  2. a crash
    Sextus magnum fragorem audit ― Sextus hears the great crash.
  3. an uproar
    Synonyms: sēditiō, tumultus, perculsus, concursus, inquiētūdō
  4. a clamor, din
    Synonyms: clangor, strepitus, clāmor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative fragor fragōrēs
genitive fragōris fragōrum
dative fragōrī fragōribus
accusative fragōrem fragōrēs
ablative fragōre fragōribus
vocative fragor fragōrēs

Descendants

  • → English: fragor
  • → Italian: fragore
  • → Portuguese: fragor
  • → Spanish: fragor

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)

  1. 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)

  1. clamour, din
  2. 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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