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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”

  • fracturing
  • microfracture
  • refracture
  • microfracturing
  • postfracture
  • hydrofracturing
  • frack
  • pseudofracture
  • nonfracture
  • antifracture
  • fractural
  • hydrofracture
  • cryofracture
  • fracturable
  • fracking
  • fracker
  • frackable
  • mono-fracture
  • antifracking
  • multifracture
  • nonfracturing
  • hydrofracking
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