fractuur

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed 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-, from whence also English break and Dutch breken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frɑkˈtyːr/

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• Hyphenation: frac‧tuur
• Rhymes: -yːr

Noun

fractuur f (plural fracturen, diminutive fractuurtje n)

1. fracture, esp. in a bone

Synonyms

• breuk

Derived terms

• kaakfractuur

Descendants

• → Indonesian: fraktur