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fragro

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfra.ɡro/
  • Rhymes: -aɡro
  • Hyphenation: frà‧gro

Verb

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fragro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fragrare

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁g- (to smell). De Vaan derives it as a denominative verb in -ō, -āre from a hypothetical Italic adjective *fragros = *bʰrh₁g-ro- from *bʰreh₁g- +‎ *-ro-.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfra.ɡroː/, [ˈfräɡroː] or IPA(key): /ˈfraɡ.roː/, [ˈfräɡroː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfra.ɡro/, [ˈfräːɡro] or IPA(key): /ˈfraɡ.ro/, [ˈfräɡro]
  • The a in the first syllable is short per Schrijver (1991)[2] and De Vaan (2008).[1] Although the first syllable frequently scans heavy in verse due to the following potentially heterosyllabic -gr-, Ernout and Meillet point to the scansion of the participle (found in the manuscript with the dissimilated spelling flagrans) in Catullus 6, 8 as support for the short quantity of the vowel.[3]

Verb

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fragrō (present infinitive fragrāre, perfect active fragrāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

  1. to emit a smell of, to smell of, to be redolent of, to reek of
    Synonym: adoleō
  2. to emit smell, either pleasant or unpleasant, of

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Italian: fragrare

(From a dissimilated variant flagrō)

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fragrō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 238
  2. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 185-191
  3. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “fragrō, -ās, -āuī, -āre”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 251

Further reading

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  • fragro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fragro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.