English

hip fracture

From hip + fracture, from being a fracture of the leg, located near, but below, the hip.

A compound of hip + fracture

Proto-Germanic *hupiz ‘hip, haunch’

Proto-West Germanic *hupi ‘hip’

Old English hype ‘hip’

Middle English hipe ‘hip’

English hip

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

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Latin frāctūrus ‘about to break or shatter (something)’

Latin frāctūra ‘a breach, fracture, cleft’

Old French fracture

Middle English fracture

Today it means

noun A break to the upper quarter of the femur (the femoral head or the femoral neck), impairing the hip joint.

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

Etymograph / hip fracture