formant
See also: Formant
English
Etymology
From German Formant (“formant”), from Latin fōrmāns (“shaping, forming, fashioning”), present participle of fōrmō (“I shape, form, fashion, format”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ)mənt/
Noun
formant (plural formants)
- (physics, phonetics) A band of frequencies, in a sound spectrum, that have a greater intensity; they determine the quality of a sound; especially the characteristic sounds of the consonants.
- 2012, Peter Ladefoged; Sandra Ferrari Disner, Vowels and Consonants, Kindle edition, New York: Wiley, →ISBN:
- The resonances of the vocal tract are called formants. Trying to hear the separate formants in a vowel is difficult. We are so used to a vowel being a single meaningful entity that it is difficult to consider it as a sound with separable bits. But it is possible to say vowels so that some of their component parts are more obvious.
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- (linguistics) A morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem, forming an extended root or stem.
Translations
band of frequencies
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morpheme occuring as an affix to a root or stem
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Further reading
formant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Fortman
Catalan
Verb
formant
- present participle of formar
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Participle
formant
- present participle of former
Further reading
- “formant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
fōrmant
- third-person plural present active indicative of fōrmō
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɔr.mant/
- Rhymes: -ɔrmant
- Syllabification: for‧mant
Noun
formant m inan
- (acoustics, phonetics) formant (band of frequencies)
- (linguistic morphology) formant (morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem, forming an extended root or stem)
- Synonyms: afiks, zrostek
Declension
Declension of formant
singular | plural | |
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nominative | formant | formanty |
genitive | formantu | formantów |
dative | formantowi | formantom |
accusative | formant | formanty |
instrumental | formantem | formantami |
locative | formancie | formantach |
vocative | formancie | formanty |
Derived terms
adjective
- formantowy
noun
- formanta
Further reading
- formant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- formant in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French formant.
Noun
formant m (plural formanți)
- formant
Declension
Declension of formant
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) formant | formantul | (niște) formanți | formanții |
genitive/dative | (unui) formant | formantului | (unor) formanți | formanților |
vocative | formantule | formanților |
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From fȏrma.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fǒrmant/
- Hyphenation: for‧mant
Noun
fòrmant m (Cyrillic spelling фо̀рмант)
- (grammar) formative
Declension
Declension of formant
singular | plural | |
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nominative | fòrmant | formanti |
genitive | formanta | fòrmanātā |
dative | formantu | formantima |
accusative | formant | formante |
vocative | formantu / formante | formanti |
locative | formantu | formantima |
instrumental | formantom | formantima |
References
- “formant” in Hrvatski jezični portal