Etymograph

English

fractable

From fract + -able.

Formed from fract + -able

Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- ‘to break’

Latin frangō ‘to break’

Latin frāctus ‘broken, shattered, having been broken’

English fract

Today it means

noun A decorative coping on a gable wall that rises up to obscure the roof line.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fractable