formant

See also: Formant

English

Etymology

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

Noun

formant (plural formants)

(physics) 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.
(linguistics) a morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem, forming an extended root or stem.

Translations

band of frequencies

Finnish: formantti (fi)

Japanese: フォルマント (forumanto)

Anagrams

Fortman

Catalan

Verb

formant

present participle of formar

French

Verb

formant

present participle of former

Latin

Verb

formant

third-person plural present active indicative of formō

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From fȏrma.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fòrmant m (Cyrillic spelling фо̀рмант)

(grammar) formative

Declension

Declension of formant

	singular	plural
nominative	fòrmant	formanti
genitive	formanta	fòrmanātā
dative	formantu	formantima
accusative	formant	formante
vocative	formantu / formante	formanti
locative	formantu	formantima
instrumental	formantom	formantima

References

“formant” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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