fraktur

• Fraktur
• fractur
• Fractur (obsolete)

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.

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

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.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:fraktur.

• fraktur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Latin frāctūra (“breaking”).

fraktur c (singular definite frakturen, plural indefinite frakturer)

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

• (of bone): knoglebrud

• fraktur on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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-.

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

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.

• fraktura

• “fraktur” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin fractura.

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

1. a fracture (in a bone)

• “fraktur” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin fractura.

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

1. a fracture (in a bone)

• “fraktur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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.

fraktur c

1. fracture (in a bone)

   Synonym: benbrott

2. fraktur (style of black letter type)

   Synonyms: frakturstil, gotisk (nonstandard)

• fraktur in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fraktur in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fraktur in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)