fracture

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French fracture, from Latin fractura (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, from whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæk.tʃɚ/

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Noun

fracture (plural fractures)

1. The act of breaking, or something that has broken, especially that in bone or cartilage.
2. (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.

Verb

fracture (third-person singular simple present fractures, present participle fracturing, simple past and past participle fractured)

1. to break, or cause something to break

Further reading

• fracture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• fracture in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Etymology

From Middle French fracture, from late Old French fracture, borrowed from Latin fractūra. Compare the inherited Old French fraiture, and the frainture (influenced by fraindre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁak.tyʁ/

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Noun

fracture f (plural fractures)

1. fracture

Further reading

• “fracture” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Participle

fractūre

1. vocative masculine singular of fractūrus

Verb

fracture

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fracturar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of fracturar.