fraktur

See also: Fraktur

English

Text set in fraktur type. Detail from the dedication page of Goethe's Faust, a 1920 edition.

Alternative forms

Etymology

1886 fractur, 1904 fraktur, from German Fraktur, Fractur, from Latin frāctūra (breaking, noun), from frangere (to break), past participle fractus. Compare English fracture, fraction. Doublet of fracture.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɹæktuːɹ/
  • Hyphenation: frak‧tur

Noun

fraktur (countable and uncountable, plural frakturs)

  1. (typography) A style of black letter type, used especially in Germany in the 16th to 20th centuries.
  2. (US) A Pennsylvania German document style, incorporating watercolour illustration and fraktur lettering.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:fraktur.

See also


Danish

Etymology

From Latin frāctūra (breaking).

Noun

fraktur c (singular definite frakturen, plural indefinite frakturer)

  1. fracture (in bone or cartilage)
  2. (typography) fraktur, (black letter)

Inflection

Synonyms

  • (of bone): knoglebrud

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch fractuur, from Middle French fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin fractura (a breach, fracture, cleft), from frangere (to break), past participle fractus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfrakt̪ʊr]
  • Hyphenation: frak‧tur

Noun

fraktur (plural fraktur-fraktur, first-person possessive frakturku, second-person possessive frakturmu, third-person possessive frakturnya)

  1. fracture:
    1. (medicine) a break in bone or cartilage.

Further reading


Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin fractura.

Noun

fraktur m (definite singular frakturen, indefinite plural frakturer, definite plural frakturene)

  1. a fracture (in a bone)

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin fractura.

Noun

fraktur m (definite singular frakturen, indefinite plural frakturar, definite plural frakturane)

  1. a fracture (in a bone)

References


Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fractura (fracture, broken).

In damaged bone sense; according to SO attested since 1780. In style sense; according to SO attested since 1682.

Noun

fraktur c

  1. fracture (in a bone)
    Synonym: benbrott
  2. fraktur (style of black letter type)
    Synonyms: frakturstil, gotisk (nonstandard)

References

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