# fragor
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɹeɪɡə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪɡə(ɹ)

### 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[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

### References

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

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### 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.

#### Related terms

* fragilis
* fragmentum
* fragōsus
* frangō

#### 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

* (Brazil) IPA: /fɾaˈɡoʁ/ [fɾaˈɡoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /fɾaˈɡoʁ/ [fɾaˈɡoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /fɾaˈɡoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /fɾaˈɡoʁ/ [fɾaˈɡoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /fɾaˈɡoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /fɾɐˈɡoɾ/ [fɾɐˈɣoɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /fɾɐˈɡoɾ/ [fɾɐˈɣoɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /fɾɐˈɡo.ɾi/ [fɾɐˈɣo.ɾi]

### 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.

### Further reading

* “fragor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10