fraktur

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English

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

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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 German speaking countries from the 16th century until World War II.
  2. (US) A Pennsylvania German document style, incorporating watercolour illustration and fraktur lettering.

Quotations

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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

Declension of fraktur
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fraktur frakturen frakturer frakturerne
genitive frakturs frakturens frakturers frakturernes

Synonyms

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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):
  • 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.

Alternative forms

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)

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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)

Declension

Declension of fraktur 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fraktur frakturen frakturer frakturerna
Genitive frakturs frakturens frakturers frakturernas

References

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