fragor

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹeɪɡə(ɹ)/

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

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 […]

From the above, by confusion with the root of fragrant.

fragor (plural fragors)

1. (obsolete, proscribed) A strong or sweet scent; fragrance.
   • 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], 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

“fragor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From frangō (“break, shatter”) +‎ -or.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfra.ɡor/, [ˈfräɡɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfra.ɡor/, [ˈfräːɡor]

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

Third-declension noun.

• fragilis
• fragmentum
• fragōsus
• frangō

• “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 (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• 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)
    

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

fragor m (plural fragores)

1. bang, boom (sudden percussive noise)

   Synonyms: estrépito, estridor, estrondo, estampido

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

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.

• “fragor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28