English

Text set in fraktur type. Detail from the dedication page of Goethe's Faust, a 1920 edition.

Alternative forms

• Fraktur
• Fractur (obsolete)

Noun

fraktur ‎(countable and uncountable, plural frakturs)

1. (typography) A style of black letter type, used especially in Germany in the 16th to 20th centuries.
2. (US) A Pennsylvania German document style, incorporating watercolour illustration and fraktur lettering.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:fraktur.

See also

• fraktur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

From Latin frāctūra ‎(“breaking”).

Noun

fraktur c (singular definite frakturen, plural indefinite frakturer)

1. fracture (in bone or cartilage)
2. (typography) fraktur, (black letter)

Synonyms

• (of bone): knoglebrud

Inflection

See also

• fraktur on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin fractura

Noun

fraktur m ‎(definite singular frakturen, indefinite plural frakturer, definite plural frakturene)

1. a fracture (in a bone)

References

• “fraktur” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin fractura

Noun

fraktur m ‎(definite singular frakturen, indefinite plural frakturar, definite plural frakturane)

1. a fracture (in a bone)

References

• “fraktur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.