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Fraktur

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English

Noun

Fraktur (countable and uncountable, plural Frakturs)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of fraktur.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fractūra (break).

Pronunciation

Noun

Fraktur f (genitive Fraktur, plural Frakturen)

  1. (medicine) fracture (bone, etc.)
    Synonyms: Bruch, Knochenbruch
  2. (typography) Fraktur, a traditional German subgroup of black letter typefaces, used for most German texts printed in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland until World War II.
    Die Fraktur iſt eine Schriftart aus der Gruppe der gebrochenen Schriften.
    (Fraktur is a script belonging to the group of black letter typefaces.)

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Danish: fraktur
  • English: fraktur

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