fraktur

See also Fraktur

English

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

Alternative forms

• Fraktur
• Fractur (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfræktuːr/
• 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 usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

See also

• Fraktur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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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)

Synonyms

• (of bone): knoglebrud

Inflection

    Inflection of fraktur

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	fraktur	frakturen	frakturer	frakturerne
genitive	frakturs	frakturens	frakturers	frakturernes

See also

• Fraktur on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia