verb
af-frango
Meaning
- to strike upon
af-frango (better adf-), ĕre (or adfringo, ĕre), v. a.,
I. to strike upon or against something, to break against, break in pieces (very rare, perh. only in Statius):
duris adfrangunt postibus ungues, Stat. Th. 10, 47: plenis parvos uberibus, id. ib. 5, 150: hiemes bustis, id. S. 5, 1, 36.