fragosus

Latin

Etymology

From fragor (“breaking; crash, noise”) +‎ -ōsus, from frangō (“break”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fraˈɡoː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fraˈɡɔː.s̬us]

Adjective

fragōsus (feminine fragōsa, neuter fragōsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. fragile, brittle
2. crashing, roaring, rushing
3. rough, uneven, rugged
4. (figuratively, of speech) uneven, unequal

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fragōsus	fragōsa	fragōsum		fragōsī	fragōsae	fragōsa
genitive	fragōsī	fragōsae	fragōsī		fragōsōrum	fragōsārum	fragōsōrum
dative	fragōsō	fragōsae	fragōsō		fragōsīs
accusative	fragōsum	fragōsam	fragōsum		fragōsōs	fragōsās	fragōsa
ablative	fragōsō	fragōsā	fragōsō		fragōsīs
vocative	fragōse	fragōsa	fragōsum		fragōsī	fragōsae	fragōsa

Derived terms

• fragōsē

Related terms

• fragilis
• fragilitās
• fragium
• fragmen
• fragmentum
• fragor
• frangō

Descendants

• → Galician: fragoso
• → Italian: fragoso
• → Portuguese: fragoso
• → Spanish: fragoso

References

• “fragosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fragosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fragosus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.