Fraktur

See also: fraktur

English

Noun

Fraktur (plural Frakturs)

1. Alternative letter-case form of fraktur

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German

Fraktur type. Detail from the dedication page of Goethe's Faust, a 1920 edition.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fractūra (“break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʀakˈtuːɐ̯/
• Rhymes: -uːɐ̯

• Fraktur

  (file)

Noun

Fraktur f (genitive Fraktur, plural Frakturen)

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

   Die Fraktur iſt eine Schriftart aus der Gruppe der gebrochenen Schriften.

   Fraktur is a script belonging to the group of black letter typefaces.

Derived terms

• (typography): Frakturschrift, Frakturtext

See also

• (typography): Antiqua, Altschrift; Bruchschrift; Schwabacher

Descendants

• → Danish: fraktur
• → English: fraktur

Further reading

• “Fraktur” in Duden online
• Fraktur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Fraktur on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de