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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfra.ɡro/
- Rhymes: -aɡro
- Hyphenation: frà‧gro
Verb
fragro
- first-person singular present indicative of fragrare
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁g- (“to smell”). De Vaan derives it as a denominative verb in -ō, -āre from a hypothetical Italic adjective *fragros = *bʰrh₁g-ro- from *bʰreh₁g- + *-ro-.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfra.ɡroː/, or IPA(key): /ˈfraɡ.roː/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfra.ɡro/, or IPA(key): /ˈfraɡ.ro/,
- The a in the first syllable is short per Schrijver (1991) and De Vaan (2008). Although the first syllable frequently scans heavy in verse due to the following potentially heterosyllabic -gr-, Ernout and Meillet point to the scansion of the participle (found in the manuscript with the dissimilated spelling flagrans) in Catullus 6, 8 as support for the short quantity of the vowel.
Verb
fragrō (present infinitive fragrāre, perfect active fragrāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to emit a smell of, to smell of, to be redolent of, to reek of
- Synonym: adoleō
- to emit smell, either pleasant or unpleasant, of
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
(From a dissimilated variant flagrō)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fragrō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 238
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 185-191
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “fragrō, -ās, -āuī, -āre”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 251
Further reading
- “fragro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fragro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.