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

(deprecated template usage) 1886 fractur, 1904 fraktur, from German Fraktur, Fractur, from Latin frāctūra (“breaking”, noun), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus. Compare English fracture, fraction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæktuːɹ/
• 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 quotations using this term, see Citations:fraktur.

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)

Inflection

Declension of fraktur

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

Synonyms

• (of bone): knoglebrud

See also

• fraktur on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin fractura

Noun

fraktur m (definite singular frakturen, indefinite plural frakturer, definite plural frakturene)

1. a fracture (in a bone)

References

• “fraktur” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin fractura

Noun

fraktur m (definite singular frakturen, indefinite plural frakturar, definite plural frakturane)

1. a fracture (in a bone)

References

• “fraktur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.