formant

Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns (“shaping; forming; fashioning”), present participle of fōrmō (“to shape; to form; to fashion”). Doublet of formans.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ)mənt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mənt

formant (plural formants)

1. (physics, phonetics) A band of frequencies in a sound spectrum that have greater intensity and 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.

2. (linguistic morphology) Synonym of formative (“a language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function”).

• formant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Fortman

formant

1. gerund of formar

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁ.mɑ̃/

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Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns (“shaping; forming; fashioning”), present participle of fōrmō (“to shape; to form; to fashion”). Doublet of formans.

formant m (plural formants)

1. (physics, phonetics) formant (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)
2. (linguistic morphology) formative (language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function)

   Synonym: formans

formant

1. present participle of former

• “formant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

fōrmant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of fōrmō

Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.mant/
• Rhymes: -ɔrmant
• Syllabification: for‧mant

formant m inan

1. (acoustics, phonetics) formant (band of frequencies)
2. (linguistic morphology) formative (language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function)

   Hyponyms: afiks, zrostek

• “formant”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

Borrowed from French formant.

formant m (plural formanți)

1. formant

From fȏrma.

• IPA^(key): /fǒrmant/
• Hyphenation: for‧mant

fòrmant m inan (Cyrillic spelling фо̀рмант)

1. (linguistic morphology) formative (language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function)

• “formant”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026