fractura

See also: fracturá and fractură

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin fractūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fɾəkˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [fɾakˈtu.ɾa]

Noun

fractura f (plural fractures)

1. fracture

Derived terms

• fracturar

Further reading

• “fractura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Etymology 2

Verb

fractura

1. inflection of fracturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

French

Verb

fractura

1. third-person singular past historic of fracturer

Interlingua

Noun

fractura (plural fracturas)

1. fracture

Latin

Etymology

From frāctūrus.

Pronunciation

• frāctūra: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fraːkˈtuː.ra/, [fräːkˈt̪uːrä]
• frāctūra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /frakˈtu.ra/, [fräkˈt̪uːrä]
• frāctūrā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fraːkˈtuː.raː/, [fräːkˈt̪uːräː]
• frāctūrā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /frakˈtu.ra/, [fräkˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

frāctūra f (genitive frāctūrae); first declension

1. a breach, fracture, cleft
2. a broken bit, fragment

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	frāctūra	frāctūrae
genitive	frāctūrae	frāctūrārum
dative	frāctūrae	frāctūrīs
accusative	frāctūram	frāctūrās
ablative	frāctūrā	frāctūrīs
vocative	frāctūra	frāctūrae

Descendants

• Italian: frattura
• Old French: fraiture
• → Alemannic German: Fättere
• → Bulgarian: фрактура (fraktura)
• → Catalan: fractura
• → Czech: fraktura
• → Danish: fraktur
• → English: fracture
• → French: fracture
• → Galician: fractura
• → German: Fraktur
  • → Danish: fraktur
  • → English: fraktur
• → Old French: fracture
  • Middle French: fracture
    • French: fracture
      • → Romanian: fractură
  • → Dutch: fractuur
  • → English: fracture
• → Norwegian: fraktur
• → Portuguese: fratura
• → Russian: фрактура (fraktura)
• → Slovak: fraktúra
• → Spanish: fractura
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *franctura
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Romanian: frântură
  • Old French: frainture
  • Old Italian: frantura

Participle

frāctūra

1. inflection of frāctūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

frāctūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of frāctūrus

References

• “fractura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fractura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fractura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Noun

fractura f (plural fracturas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of fratura. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Etymology 2

Verb

fractura

1. inflection of fracturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fracturer.

Verb

a fractura (third-person singular present fracturează, past participle fracturat) 1st conjugation

1. to fracture

Conjugation

    conjugation of fractura (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a fractura
gerund			fracturând
past participle			fracturat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	fracturez	fracturezi	fracturează	fracturăm	fracturați	fracturează
	imperfect	fracturam	fracturai	fractura	fracturam	fracturați	fracturau
	simple perfect	fracturai	fracturași	fractură	fracturarăm	fracturarăți	fracturară
	pluperfect	fracturasem	fracturaseși	fracturase	fracturaserăm	fracturaserăți	fracturaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să fracturez	să fracturezi	să fractureze	să fracturăm	să fracturați	să fractureze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		fracturează			fracturați
	negative		nu fractura			nu fracturați

Related terms

• fractură

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɾaɡˈtuɾa/ [fɾaɣ̞ˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: frac‧tu‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin fractūra.

Noun

fractura f (plural fracturas)

1. fracture

Derived terms

• fractura en tallo verde
• fracturar

Related terms

• fracción
• frágil
• fragmento
• fragor
• frangir

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fractura

1. inflection of fracturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “fractura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10