formant
See also: Formant
English edit
Etymology edit
From German Formant (“formant”), from Latin fōrmāns (“shaping, forming, fashioning”), present participle of fōrmō (“I shape, form, fashion, format”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
formant (plural formants)
- (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.
- (linguistics) A morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem, forming an extended root or stem.
Translations edit
band of frequencies
morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem
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Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Verb edit
formant
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Participle edit
formant
Further reading edit
- “formant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Verb edit
fōrmant
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
formant m inan
- (acoustics, phonetics) formant (band of frequencies)
- (linguistic morphology) formant (morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem, forming an extended root or stem)
Declension edit
Declension of formant
singular | plural | |
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nominative | formant | formanty |
genitive | formantu | formantów |
dative | formantowi | formantom |
accusative | formant | formanty |
instrumental | formantem | formantami |
locative | formancie | formantach |
vocative | formancie | formanty |
Derived terms edit
adjective
noun
Further reading edit
- formant in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
formant m (plural formanți)
Declension edit
Declension of formant
singular | plural | |||
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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 edit
Etymology edit
From fȏrma.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fòrmant m (Cyrillic spelling фо̀рмант)
Declension edit
Declension of formant
singular | plural | |
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nominative | fòrmant | formanti |
genitive | formanta | fòrmanātā |
dative | formantu | formantima |
accusative | formant | formante |
vocative | formantu / formante | formanti |
locative | formantu | formantima |
instrumental | formantom | formantima |
References edit
- “formant” in Hrvatski jezični portal