Where does “fracture” come from?
fracture (Middle French) comes from Old French fracture, from Latin fractura, from Latin frangere, from Latin frangō, from Proto-Indo-European bʰrēǵ- — to shine, shimmer.
Ancestry of “fracture”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | fracture | — |
| 2 | Latin | fractura | a breach, fracture, cleft; a broken bit,... |
| 3 | Latin | frangere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 4 | Latin | frangō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰrēǵ- | to shine, shimmer |
Words derived from “fracture”