The corpus record — Latin

fragor

the breaking, crash, roar

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 7.65/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Argonautica 20 · 5.38/10k
Thebais 24 · 3.84/10k
Carmina 8 · 3.57/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 4 · 3.55/10k
In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 4 · 3.16/10k
Troades 2 · 2.94/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 2 · 2.65/10k
Hercules 2 · 2.63/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. fragor — de Vaan

fragor 'the breaking, crash, roar' (Lucr.+), fragosus 'brittle, rugged' (Lucr.+); — [de Vaan, s.v. fragor, p. 253]

2. frăgor — Lewis & Short

frăgor, ōris, m.id.,

I a breaking, breaking to pieces.

I Lit. (very rare): pausam stare fragori, to fragility, Lucr. 1, 747: so, id. 5, 109; 317.—

II Transf., a crashing (as when something is broken to pieces), a crash, noise, din (the usual signif. of the word; mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: sonus, sonor): ut crebram silvam cum flamina Cauri Perflant, dant sonitum frondes ramique fragorem, Lucr. 6, 136: sternitur nemus, et propulsa fragorem silva dat, Ov. M. 8, 340: fragor tectorum, quae diruebantur, Liv. 1, 29, 4: ruentium tectorum, Quint. 8, 3, 68: venti procella dat fragorem, Lucr. 6, 129: multus geli, id. 6, 156: pelagi, Verg. A. 1, 154; cf. Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 17: subitoque fragore intonuit laevum, Verg. A. 2, 692; 9, 541; cf. 8, 527; cf.: quem (Periclea) fulminibus et caelesti fragori comparant comici, Quint. 12, 10, 24: Nilus praecipitans se fragore auditum accolis aufert, Plin. 6, 29, 35, § 181: sublimitas profecto et magnificentia et nitor et auctoritas expressit illum fragorem, those thunders of applause, Quint. 8, 3, 3: exornatio significandae rei causa, sic: Postquam iste in rem publicam fecit impetum, fragor civitatis imprimis est auditus. Hoc genere raro utendum est, ne novi verbi assiduitas odium pariat, etc., Auct. Her. 4, 31, 42: terra continens adventus hostium non modo exspectatos, sed etiam repentinos multis indiciis et quasi fragore quodam et sonitu ipso ante denuntiat, Cic. Rep. 2, 3 Mos.— Poet. for report, rumor, Val. Fl. 1, 753.

3. fragor — Walde–Hofmann

fragor, -órís m. „das Zerbrechen (seit Lucr.); Krachen, Getóse" (seit Cic., rom): zu an. brak n. „Krach, Lärm“, mnd. brak, mhd. brach m. ds. (mnd. brok n., ült. dán. brag auch „Bruch, Schade"), air. braigim *pédo? (*bhragió, Osthoff MU. 5, 100 ZceltPh. 6, 396 m. weiterem), lit braskà, brasleti „krachen, knacken“ (*bhrag-skö, Trautmann bei Walde LEW.? 312, Scheftelowitz KZ. 56, 173 (anders Mühlenbach-E. I 3232); vgl. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. fragor, p. 571]

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. fragor (scan p. 253; entry #618).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. fragor (scan pp. 571-572; entry #1158). Root candidates: *hhreg-, *bhráj-, *sprakt-.

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