frangent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →frango, frangere, fregi, fractus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
break, shatter, crush; dishearten, subdue, weaken; move, discourage;
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...inferni superique maris, collesque coercent 400hinc Tyrrhena uado frangentes aequora Pisae, illinc Dalmaticis obnoxia fluctibus Ancon. fontibus..."Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...rebus, iam corpora materiai usque redacta forent aevo frangente priore, ut nihil ex illis a certo tempore posset..."Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...illis septemtrionalibus locis iam disturbata niue et glacie frangente se fertur, id meridianae partis tepentem iam umidumque aera..."