A loud crash, bang, or noise; a thunderous sound or the sound of something shattering.
From Latin 'fragor', meaning 'a crash, roar, or noise.' The word derives from the Latin verb 'frangere', meaning 'to break', so a fragor is literally the loud sound of breaking—the noise of fragmentation made audible.
The word 'fragor' is almost extinct in English, surviving mainly in poetry and descriptions of ancient battles, yet it captures something modern sound effects try to recreate—the specific acoustic signature of catastrophic breaking, the sound itself carrying the violence of the moment.
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