fragro

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

fragro

1. first-person singular present indicative of fragrare

• flagrō, fraglō

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]

• (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]

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

• fragrāns

• Italian: fragrare

(From a dissimilated variant flagrō)

• “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.