# fracture
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin fractūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɹæk.tjə/
* (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃə/
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃɚ/
** Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

fracture (plural fractures)
* An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
* (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
* (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.

#### Derived terms

* antifracture
* brittle fracture
* Colles' fracture
* complicated fracture
* compound fracture
* compression fracture
* cryofracture
* Don Juan fracture
* ductile fracture
* Dupuytren's fracture
* fractural
* fracture mechanics
* fracture plane
* fractureproof
* Galeazzi fracture
* greenstick fracture
* hairline fracture
* hangman's fracture
* hip fracture
* Holstein-Lewis fracture
* hydrofracture
* incomplete fracture
* Jones fracture
* Lisfranc fracture
* macrofracture
* Maisonneuve fracture
* microfracture
* mono-fracture
* multifracture
* nanofracture
* nightstick fracture
* nonfracture
* oblique fracture
* open fracture
* postfracture
* Pott's fracture
* prefracture
* pseudofracture
* refracture
* Salter-Harris fracture
* simple fracture
* Smith's fracture
* stress fracture
* tracheal fracture
* vowel fracture

#### Related terms

* fractal
* fraction
* fragment

#### Translations

Chinese:
Mandarin: 骨折 (zh) (gǔzhé)
Egyptian: (pšn)
Estonian: murd
Finnish: murtuma (fi)
Greek:
Ancient: ῥῆγμα n (rhêgma)
Hindi: अस्थिभंग (hi) (asthibhaṅg)
Indonesian: fraktur (id)
Japanese: 骨折 (ja) (こっせつ, kossetsu)
Korean: 골절(骨折) (ko) (goljeol)
Malay: fraktur (ms), patah tulang
Sanskrit: अस्थिभङ्ग (sa) (asthibhaṅga)
Swedish: benbrott (sv) n, fraktur (sv) c
Welsh: toriad (cy) m :

### Verb

fracture (third-person singular simple present fractures, present participle fracturing, simple past and past participle fractured)
* (transitive, intransitive) To break, or cause something to break.
* (transitive, slang) To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.
** 2013, Frank De Blase, Pine Box for a Pin-Up:“You fracture me, Frankie,” Patsy said. “You should take that act on the road. Howsabout now?” This is the way it would go whenever I showed up at Patsy's, a dual of digs and wisecracks with the disapproving groans of those within earshot.

#### Derived terms

* fractile
* fracturable
* nonfracturing
* refracture

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “fracture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fracture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French fracture, from late Old French fracture, borrowed from Latin fractūra. Compare the inherited Old French fraiture, and the frainture (influenced by fraindre).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fʁak.tyʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Noun

fracture f (plural fractures)
* fracture

#### Derived terms

* fracture ouverte

#### Related terms

* fraction

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: fractură

### Further reading

* “fracture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Participle

frāctūre
* vocative masculine singular of frāctūrus

## Portuguese
### Verb

fracture
* inflection of fracturar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

fracture
* inflection of fracturar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative