The corpus record — Latin

fragosus

fragosus · adj

Apt to be broken

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Where it lives

Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

frăgōsus — Lewis & Short

frăgōsus, a, um, adj.fragor.

I (Acc. to fragor, I.) Apt to be broken, fragile (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

A Lit.: fragosa putri corpore, Lucr. 2, 860.—

2 Transf., rough, uneven: silvis horrentia saxa fragosis, Ov. M. 4, 778: mons, Grat. Cyneg. 527. —

B Trop., of speech, uneven, unequal: fragosa atque interrupta oratio, Quint. 9, 4, 7: aures fragosis offenduntur, id. 9, 4, 116: versus, Diom. p. 499 P.—

II (Acc. to fragor, II.) Crashing, rushing, roaring (poet.): medioque fragosus Dat sonitum saxis et torto vertice torrens, Verg. A. 7, 566: vada, Val. Fl. 2, 622: arx Maleae, id. 4, 261: lux, a rattling gleam (lightning), id. 2, 198: murmura leonum, Claud. II. Cons. Stil. 337: nares, Amm. 14, 6, 25.—Hence, * adv.: fră-gōse (acc. to II.), with a crashing: (secures a ligno laricis) respuuntur et fragosius sidunt, aegrius revelluntur, Plin. 16, 10, 19, § 47.

In the wild

fragosis Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.208
fragosus Vergil, Aeneid 7.566
fragosis Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.778
fragosa Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.994
fragosis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.6.25
fragosa Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.860

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