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Latin frāctūra ("a break"),
built from frāctus, p****ive
participle of
frangere ("to break"),
which is also the root for the
English word "fracture". In...
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means literally "stone-breaker", from
Latin saxum ("rock" or "stone") +
frangere ("to break"). It is
usually thought to
indicate a
medicinal use for treatment...
- from the
Latin saxifraga or saxifragus: "stone-breaking";
saxum "rock" +
frangere "to break"). S****afras
trees are not
within the
family Saxifragaceae.[citation...
- sub "under" +
fragor "crash, din,
shouts (as of approval)",
related to
frangere "to break";
Eduard Wunder writes that the word may be
related to suffrago...
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fractal from the
Latin adjective fractus. The
corresponding Latin verb
frangere means "to break:" to
create irregular fragments. It is
therefore sensible...
- dendrobium,
Dendrobium formosum formosus –
formosa –
formosum fragilis L
frangere breakable brittle bladder-fern,
Cystopteris fragilis;
brittle willow, Salix...
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means "bone-breaker". It is
derived from os or ossis,
meaning "bone", and
frangere,
meaning "to break". The English-language
common name fish crow also derives...
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translation of
German Nussbrecher, "nut-breaker"
based on
Latin nucis "nut", and
frangere "to shatter", and
caryocatactes based on Gr****:
karuon "nut", and kataseio...
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depression Latin fovea fovea frag-, frang-, -fring-, fract-
break Latin frangere, frāctus defray, diffract, fractal, fraction, fractious, fracture, fragile...
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chapter concerned the
wrongful "burning,
breaking or rending" (urere,
frangere, rumpere) not only of
slaves and
cattle but also
other property: Ceterarum...
