frango

frango m (plural frangos)

1. a young chicken

   Synonyms: piouco, poliño, policho

• IPA^(key): /ˈfran.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -anɡo
• Hyphenation: fràn‧go

frango

1. first-person singular present indicative of frangere

• fragno

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”) with the nasal infix *-n-. De Vaan reconstructs PIE *bʰrn̥ǵ-,^[1] but since descendants of this formation are not found in Celtic or Germanic, Schrijver argues it could be a Latin innovation and suggests the original vocalism can't be established.^[2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfraŋ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfraŋ.ɡo]

frangō (present infinitive frangere, perfect active frēgī, supine frāctum); third conjugation

1. (literal) to break, shatter

   Synonyms: īnfringō, irrumpō, rumpō, violō

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Lucas.9.16:

     Acceptis autem quinque panibus et duobus piscibus, respexit in caelum et benedixit illis, et fregit et distribuit discipulis suis, ut ponerent ante turbas.

     Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and broke them and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.

2. (figurative) to break, shatter (a promise, a treaty, someone's ideas (dreams, projects), someone's spirit)
3. (figurative) to break up into pieces (a war from too many battles, a nation)
4. (figurative) to reduce, weaken (one's desires, a nation)

   Synonyms: effēminō, atterō, dēterō, minuō, tenuō, cōnsūmō, afficiō

   Antonyms: firmō, cōnfirmō, mūniō, fortificō, cōnsolidō, sistō

• “frango”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “frango”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• frango in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the heat is abating: calor se frangit (opp. increscit)
    
  • to break a person's neck: cervices (in Cic. only in plur.) frangere alicui or alicuius
    
  • their spirits are broken: animus frangitur, affligitur, percellitur, debilitatur
    
  • to inspire the spiritless and prostrate with new vigour: excitare animum iacentem et afflictum (opp. frangere animum)
    
  • to break one's word: fidem laedere, violare, frangere
    
  • to break one's word: fidem frangere
    
  • to break the peace: pacem dirimere, frangere
    
  • to violate a treaty, terms of alliance: foedus frangere, rumpere, violare
    
  • (ambiguous) to be completely prostrated by fear: metu fractum et debilitatum, perculsum esse
    
• “frango”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

• flango (pronunciation spelling, childish or Chinese accent)

From earlier frângão,^[1] of unknown origin.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ɡu
• Hyphenation: fran‧go

frango m (plural frangos)

1. a young chicken
2. (cooking) chicken meat

   De vaca ou de frango?

   Beef or chicken?

3. (figuratively, colloquial) a young boy
4. (soccer) a goal resulting from a shameful mistake by the goalkeeper
   1. (Brazil) the goalkeeper who makes this mistake

      Synonym: frangueiro