Fraktur

German (Berlin)

/fʀakˈtuːɐ̯/

noun

Definitions

(medicine) fracture bone, etc.
(typography) fraktur, a traditional German subgroup of black letter typefaces, used for most German texts printed in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland until World War II.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fractūra (cleft, a breach, break, fracture).

Origin

Latin

fractūra

Gloss

cleft, a breach, break, fracture

Concept

Semantic Field

Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

fractūra Latin
Frakturschrift German
Schrift German
frattura Italian
fracture French
fractura Spanish, Castilian
*bʰreg- Proto-Indo-European
fracture Old French