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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formant (plural formants)

1. (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.

2. (linguistic morphology) Synonym of formative (“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

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), 2006–2025