English

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?)

Latin

Etymology

From frangō ‎(“break, shatter”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfra.ɡor/

Noun

fragor m ‎(genitive fragōris); third declension

1. a breaking, shattering
2. a crash

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

Inflection

Third declension.

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fragor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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)
    

Spanish

Noun

fragor m ‎(plural fragores)

1. clamour, din