formant

See also: Formant

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ)mənt/

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.

Translations

band of frequencies

• Dutch: formant (nl) m
• Finnish: formantti (fi)
• French: formant (fr) m
• German: Formant (de) m
• Indonesian: forman (id) m
• Japanese: フォルマント (forumanto)
• Polish: formant m
• Russian: форманта (ru) f (formanta)
• Spanish: formante (es) m

morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem

• Polish: formant m

Further reading

• formant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Fortman

Catalan

Verb

formant

1. gerund of formar

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Participle

formant

1. present participle of former

Further reading

• “formant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

fōrmant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of fōrmō

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.mant/
• Rhymes: -ɔrmant
• Syllabification: for‧mant

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

• formantowy

 

noun

• formanta

 

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