formant

See also: Formant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns (“shaping; forming; fashioning”), present participle of fōrmō (“to shape; to form; to fashion”). Doublet of formans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ)mənt/

• Audio (US):

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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. (linguistic morphology) Synonym of formative (“language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function”).

Translations

band of frequencies

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 共振峰 (gung⁶ zan³ fung¹)

  Mandarin: 共振峰 (gòngzhènfēng)

• Dutch: formant (nl) m
• Esperanto: formanto
• Finnish: formantti (fi)
• French: formant (fr) m
• German: Formant (de) m
• Indonesian: forman (id) m
• Japanese: フォルマント (forumanto)
• Persian: سازند (fa)
• Polish: formant m
• Russian: форманта (ru) f (formanta)
• Spanish: formante (es) m

language unit — see formative

Further reading

• formant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Fortman

Catalan

Verb

formant

1. gerund of formar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁ.mɑ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns (“shaping; forming; fashioning”), present participle of fōrmō (“to shape; to form; to fashion”). Doublet of formans.

Noun

formant m (plural formants)

1. (physics, phonetics) formant (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)
2. (linguistic morphology) formative (language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function)

   Synonym: formans

Etymology 2

Participle

formant

1. present participle of former

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

fōrmant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of fōrmō

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.mant/
• Rhymes: -ɔrmant
• Syllabification: for‧mant

Noun

formant m inan

1. (acoustics, phonetics) formant (band of frequencies)
2. (linguistic morphology) formative (language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function)

   Hyponyms: afiks, zrostek

Declension

Declension of formant

	singular	plural
nominative	formant	formanty
genitive	formantu	formantów
dative	formantowi	formantom
accusative	formant	formanty
instrumental	formantem	formantami
locative	formancie	formantach
vocative	formancie	formanty

Derived terms

adjective

• formantowy

 

noun

• formanta

 

Further reading

• formant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French formant.

Noun

formant m (plural formanți)

1. formant

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	formant	formantul		formanți	formanții
genitive-dative	formant	formantului		formanți	formanților
vocative	formantule			formanților

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From fȏrma.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fòrmant m (Cyrillic spelling фо̀рмант)

1. (linguistic morphology) formative (language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function)

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 [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024