Etymology

fracture

frac·ture
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Today it means: An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken. Full definition →

Middle English fracture ← Old French fracture ← Latin frāctūra
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰreg-
  2. Latinfrangō
  3. Latinfrāctūrus
  4. Latinfrāctūra
  5. Old Frenchfracture
  6. Middle Englishfracture
  7. English todayfracture

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.

Words from the same roots

Latinfrāctūra all →

fraktur

Proto-Indo-European*bʰreg- all →

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