Lewis Short
fragmen (noun N) : FRAG, frango. *
* A fracture: percussit subito deceptum fragmine pectus,Val. Fl. 3, 477.
* Mostly in plur.: fragmina, um, pieces broken off, fragments, ruins, wreck (poet. and in postAug. prose for the class. fragmenta).
* Plur.: silvarum,Lucr. 1, 284; 5, 1284: remorum,Verg. A. 10, 306: mucronis,id. ib. 12, 741: navigii,Ov. M. 11, 561; cf. ratis,id. ib. 14, 563: adjacebant fragmina telorum equorumque artus,Tac. A. 1, 61: subselliorum,Suet. Ner. 26: panis,crumbs,id. Claud. 18: favorum, quae in sacco remanserunt,Col. 9, 15fin.—Absol. of bits of wood, chips: taedas et fragmina poni Imperat,Ov. M. 8, 459.
* Sing.: Ilioneus saxo atque ingenti fragmine montis Lucetium sternit,fragment of a mountain, piece of rock,Verg. A. 9, 569; 10, 698; Vulg. Judic. 9, 53 al.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary