Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Wordsmith Wednesday

It's been too long since I've posted a plain and simple derivative post...so here goes.

Root:

frangere (L) - to break (4th PP: fractus)

Derivatives:

fraction (n) - a piece that is broken off from the whole

fractious (adj) - prone to break the peace; unruly; quarrelsome (fractiousness)

fragment (n) -  a broken piece (fragmentation, fragmented, fragmentize, fragmentizer)

infract (v) - to break by violating (infraction, infractor)

refract (v) - to break repeatedly (refractive, refractory, refraction, refractivity)

fragile (adj) - easily broken (fragility)

infringe (v) - to break a barrier; to trespass (infringement)

Can you add to this list?

4 comments:

timmmdogg said...

Fract
Fracture
Fractable
Fractile
Frag
Fragor
Defrag
Defragment
Fedifragous
Refragable
Irrefragable
Naufragate
Naufrage
Nucifragous
Ossifragous
Saxifragous
Anfract
Confract
Diffract
Effraction
Fedifraction
Fract
Fractable
Fractal
Fractile
Fractionist
Fractional
Perfract
Prefract
Refractious
Refracture
Unfractionated

That's about it.

Lori Waggoner said...

Slacker.

I officially dub you KING OF EVERYTHING!!

timmmdogg said...

There are some good words in there.

Randy S. said...

I'll add "fracturing" as in "hydraulic fracturing", now most commonly referred to as "fracking". It is BIG deal now in the oil and natural gas industries! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracking