fragosus

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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.
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