fracture

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin frāctūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle frāctus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɹæk.tjə/ (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃə/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃɚ/ === Noun === fracture (plural fractures) An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken. (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage. (geology) A fault or crack in a rock. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== fractal fraction fragment ==== Translations ==== === Verb === fracture (third-person singular simple present fractures, present participle fracturing, simple past and past participle fractured) (ambitransitive) To break, or cause something to break. (transitive, slang) To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “fracture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fracture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == French == === Etymology === Inherited 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). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fʁak.tyʁ/ === Noun === fracture f (plural fractures) fracture ==== Derived terms ==== fracture ouverte ==== Related terms ==== fraction ==== Descendants ==== → Romanian: fractură === Further reading === “fracture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fraːkˈtuː.rɛ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [frakˈtuː.re] === Participle === frāctūre vocative masculine singular of frāctūrus == Portuguese == === Verb === fracture inflection of fracturar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative == Spanish == === Verb === fracture inflection of fracturar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative