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fractūra

fractūra · f

a breach

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What it meant

fractūra — Lewis & Short

fractūra, ae, f.frango,

I a breach, fracture, cleft: ad luxum aut ad fracturam alliga, Cato, R. R. 160: quo propior fractura capiti (ossis) vel superiori vel inferiori est, eo pejor est, Cels. 8, 10.—In plur., Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 137; 31, 11, 47, § 126 (but id. 33, 4, 21, § 71, the correct read. is fractariis; v. fractaria).

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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