confringo
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
confringo: frēgi, fractum, 3, v. a. frango,
I to break in pieces (class. in prose and poetry).
I Prop.: hirneam, Cato, R. R. 81: pultando pedibus paene confregi hasce ambas (fores), Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 25: fores caedendo, Liv. 26, 46, 6: portarum claustra, Lucr. 1, 71: imbrices et tegulas, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 24; id. Capt. 4, 4, 8: digitos, Cic. Fl. 30, 73: ossa, Plin. 28, 10, 45, § 159: arbores vi tempestatis, Dig. 39, 2, 24: enses ensibus, Luc. 7, 573: turres valli impetu, id. 6, 123: confracta navis, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 64; cf. * Suet. Ner. 34: scaeptra manu, Sen. Herc. Fur. 272.—Prov.: tesseram (hospitalem), to break friendship, violate faith, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 36.—
II Trop., to break, bring to naught, destroy: rem, to dissipate, run through property, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 49; id. Trin. 1, 2, 71: superbiam, Titin. ap. Non. p. 316, 3: consilia senatoria, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 5, § 13: vires hostium, Val. Max. 7, 2, ext. 17: rem publicam, id. 4, 5, 2; Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 69.—Hence, confractus, a, um, P. a., broken, uneven: in confracto (opp. in aequo), Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 127.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
cōnfringō,¹³ frēgī, frāctum, fringĕre (cum, frango),
1 briser ; pæne confregi fores Pl. Most. 453, j’ai failli briser la porte ; digitos Cic. Fl. 73, briser les doigts ; tesseram Pl. Cist. 503, rompre la tessère = violer les droits de l’hospitalité
2 [fig.] abattre, rompre, détruire : Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 13 ; Val. Max. 4, 5, 2 ; confringere alicujus superbiam Titin. 141, rabattre l’orgueil de qqn || confringere rem Pl. Trin. 108, mettre en miettes, dissiper son patrimoine.
