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fraktur

See also: Fraktur

English edit

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

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Etymology edit

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 edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɹæktuːɹ/
  • Hyphenation: frak‧tur

Noun edit

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.

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Danish edit

Etymology edit

From Latin frāctūra (“breaking”).

Noun edit

fraktur c (singular definite frakturen, plural indefinite frakturer)

  1. fracture (in bone or cartilage)
  2. (typography) fraktur, (black letter)

Inflection edit

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

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Indonesian edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈfrakt̪ʊr]
  • Hyphenation: frak‧tur

Noun edit

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.

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Further reading edit

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology edit

From Latin fractura.

Noun edit

fraktur m (definite singular frakturen, indefinite plural frakturer, definite plural frakturene)

  1. a fracture (in a bone)

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Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology edit

From Latin fractura.

Noun edit

fraktur m (definite singular frakturen, indefinite plural frakturar, definite plural frakturane)

  1. a fracture (in a bone)

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Swedish edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

fraktur c

  1. fracture (in a bone)
    Synonym: benbrott
  2. fraktur (style of black letter type)
    Synonyms: frakturstil, gotisk (nonstandard)

Declension edit

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

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