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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ)mənt/

Noun

formant (plural formants)

1. (physics, phonetics) 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.
   • 2012, Peter Ladefoged, Sandra Ferrari Disner, Vowels and Consonants, Kindle edition, New York: Wiley, →ISBN:

     The resonances of the vocal tract are called formants. Trying to hear the separate formants in a vowel is difficult. We are so used to a vowel being a single meaningful entity that it is difficult to consider it as a sound with separable bits. But it is possible to say vowels so that some of their component parts are more obvious.

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

Translations

band of frequencies

• Dutch: formant (nl) m
• French: formant (fr) m
• Finnish: formantti (fi)
• German: Formant (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian: forman (id) m
• Japanese: フォルマント (forumanto)
• Russian: форманта (ru) f (formanta)
• Spanish: formante (es) m

Further reading

• formant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Fortman

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Catalan

Verb

formant

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French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Participle

formant

1. present participle of former

Further reading

• “formant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) fōrmant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of fōrmō

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From fȏrma.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fòrmant m (Cyrillic spelling фо̀рмант)

1. (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