formant

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English

Etymology

From German Formant (“formant”), from Latin fōrmāns (“shaping, forming, fashioning”), present participle of fōrmō (“I shape, form, fashion, format”).

Pronunciation

Noun

formant (plural formants)

  1. (physics, phonetics) A band of frequencies, in a sound spectrum, that have a greater intensity; they determine the quality of a sound; especially the characteristic sounds of the consonants.
    • 2012, Peter Ladefoged, Sandra Ferrari Disner, Vowels and Consonants, Kindle edition, New York: Wiley, →ISBN:
      The resonances of the vocal tract are called formants. Trying to hear the separate formants in a vowel is difficult. We are so used to a vowel being a single meaningful entity that it is difficult to consider it as a sound with separable bits. But it is possible to say vowels so that some of their component parts are more obvious.
  2. (linguistics) A morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem, forming an extended root or stem.

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Further reading

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Catalan

Verb

formant

  1. gerund of formar

French

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)

Participle

formant

  1. present participle of former

Further reading

Latin

Verb

fōrmant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of fōrmō

Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns.

Pronunciation

Noun

formant m inan

  1. (acoustics, phonetics) formant (band of frequencies)
  2. (linguistic morphology) formant (morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem, forming an extended root or stem)
    Synonyms: afiks, zrostek

Declension

Declension of formant
singular plural
nominative formant formanty
genitive formantu formantów
dative formantowi formantom
accusative formant formanty
instrumental formantem formantami
locative formancie formantach
vocative formancie formanty

Derived terms

adjective
noun

Further reading

  • formant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French formant.

Noun

formant m (plural formanți)

  1. formant

Declension

Declension of formant
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) formant formantul (niște) formanți formanții
genitive/dative (unui) formant formantului (unor) formanți formanților
vocative formantule formanților

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From fȏrma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fǒrmant/
  • Hyphenation: for‧mant

Noun

fòrmant m (Cyrillic spelling фо̀рмант)

  1. (grammar) formative

Declension

Declension of formant
singular plural
nominative fòrmant formanti
genitive formanta fòrmanātā
dative formantu formantima
accusative formant formante
vocative formantu / formante formanti
locative formantu formantima
instrumental formantom formantima

References

  • “formant” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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