formant

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

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.

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formant

1. present participle of formar

formant

1. present participle of former

formant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of formō

From fȏrma.

• IPA^(key): /fǒrmant/
• Hyphenation: for‧mant

fòrmant m (Cyrillic spelling фо̀рмант)

1. (grammar) formative

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