fracture

Borrowed from Old French fracture, from Latin fractūra (“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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæk.tʃə/, /ˈfɹæk.tjə/

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fracture (plural fractures)

1. An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
2. (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
3. (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.

• fractal
• fraction
• fragment

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

1. to break, or cause something to break

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

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).

• IPA^(key): /fʁak.tyʁ/

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fracture f (plural fractures)

1. fracture

• fraction

• → Romanian: fractură

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

fractūre

1. vocative masculine singular of fractūrus

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.