Etymology

fracto-

Today it means: Forming terms relating to the fracture or breaking of something. Full definition →

French fracto- ← Latin frāctus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromfrāctus“broken”
  2. French · borrowed fromfracto-
  3. English todayfracto-

Borrowed from French fracto-, from Latin frāctus (“broken”).

Words from the same roots

Latinfrāctus all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.