fraktur

See also: Fraktur

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

1886 fractur, 1904 fraktur, from German Fraktur, from Latin frāctūra (“breaking”, noun), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus. Compare English fracture, fraction.

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

Noun

fraktur (countable and uncountable, plural frakturs)

  1. (typography) A style of black letter type, used especially in Germany in the 16th to 20th centuries.
  2. (US) A Pennsylvania German document style, incorporating watercolour illustration and fraktur lettering.

Quotations
  • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:fraktur.

See also

Danish

Etymology

From Latin frāctūra (“breaking”).

Noun

fraktur c (singular definite frakturen, plural indefinite frakturer)

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

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

Synonyms
  • (of bone): knoglebrud

See also

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin fractura

Noun

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

  1. a fracture (in a bone)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin fractura

Noun

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

  1. a fracture (in a bone)

References
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