Where does “fracture” come from?

Fracture comes from Old French fracture, from Latin fractura, from Latin frangere meaning "to break," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰreg-.

fracture (English): An instance of breaking, a place where something...

Definitions

  1. An instance of breaking, a place where something...

Ancestry of “fracture”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishfracture

Words derived from “fracture

Every word from Middle English fracture