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The corpus record — Latin

affrango

affrango · v. a

to strike upon

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What it meant

af-frango — Lewis & Short

af-frango (better adf-), ĕre (or adfringo,v. a.,

ĕre),
I to strike upon or against something, to break against, break in pieces (very rare, perh. only in Statius): duris adfrangunt postibus ungues, Stat. Th. 10, 47: plenis parvos uberibus, id. ib. 5, 150: hiemes bustis, id. S. 5, 1, 36.

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Where it came from

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