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fracture

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French fracture, from Latin fract?ra (a breach, fracture, cleft), from frangere (to break), past participle fractus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?reg-, from whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?f?æk.t??/, /?f?æk.tj?/

Noun

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.

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)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To break, or cause something to break.
  2. (transitive, slang) To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.

Translations

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From Middle French fracture, from late Old French fracture, borrowed from Latin fract?ra. Compare the inherited Old French fraiture, and the frainture (influenced by fraindre).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /f?ak.ty?/

Noun

fracture f (plural fractures)

  1. fracture

Related terms

  • fraction

Descendants

  • ? Romanian: fractur?

Further reading

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

Latin

Participle

fr?ct?re

  1. vocative masculine singular of fr?ct?rus

Spanish

Verb

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.

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fragile

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French fragile, from Latin fragilis, formed on frag-, the root of frangere (to break). Cognate fraction, fracture and doublet of frail.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, General Australian, Canada) IPA(key): /?f?æd?a?l/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?f?æd??l/
  • Rhymes: -æd??l

Adjective

fragile (comparative fragiler or more fragile, superlative fragilest or most fragile)

  1. Easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure.
    The chemist synthesizes a fragile molecule.
    The UN tries to maintain the fragile peace process in the region.
    He is a very fragile person and gets easily depressed.
  2. (Britain) Feeling weak or easily disturbed as a result of illness.

Synonyms

  • friable
  • breakly
  • breakable
  • destroyable
  • destructible
  • See also Thesaurus:fragile

Antonyms

  • durable
  • unbreakable
  • undestroyable
  • indestructible
  • antifragile

Derived terms

  • fragilely

Related terms

  • fractal
  • fraction
  • fractional
  • fracture
  • fragility
  • frail
  • frailty
  • frangible

Translations


French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragilis. Doublet of frêle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /f?a.?il/
  • Homophone: fragiles

Adjective

fragile (plural fragiles)

  1. fragile

Related terms

  • fragiliser
  • fragilité

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • giflera

German

Adjective

fragile

  1. inflection of fragil:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fragilis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?fra.d??i.le/
  • Hyphenation: frà?gi?le

Adjective

fragile (plural fragili)

  1. fragile

Derived terms

  • fragilmente
  • infragilire

Related terms

  • frale
  • fragilità

Further reading

  • fragile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Adjective

fragile

  1. nominative neuter singular of fragilis
  2. accusative neuter singular of fragilis
  3. vocative neuter singular of fragilis

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