Frankfurt

See also: frankfurt

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

German Frankfurt

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɹæŋkfə(ɹ)t/
  • Homophone: Frankfort (sometimes)
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Proper noun

Frankfurt

  1. Frankfurt am Main, the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany.
    1. (metonymically) The German financial industry.
      • 1998, Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH Information Services, German Brief, volume 10:
        The poor third-quarter results from Frankfurt had the broadest impact because they spotlighted the vulnerability of the listed German universal banks to the financial crisis spreading from Asia.
    2. (metonymically) The European Central Bank.
  2. Frankfurt an der Oder, a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany.

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Proper noun

Frankfurt m

  1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
  2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

Derived terms

German

Etymology

Literally "ford of the Franks," from Franke and Furt (“ford”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʁaŋkfʊʁt/
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Proper noun

Frankfurt n (proper noun, genitive Frankfurts or (optionally with an article) Frankfurt, plural Frankfurt or Frankfurte or Frankfurts)

  1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
  2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt an der Oder (a town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

Usage notes

  • In former West Germany, Frankfurt invariably refers to Frankfurt am Main. In the East it is more ambiguous and both specifications are often maintained.

Quotations

  • 1858, Austria. Wochenschrift für Volkswirthschaft und Statistik. Des X. Jahrgangs IV. Band., Wien, page 365:
    Im Uebrigen gewähren Leipzig, die beiden Frankfurt und Braunschweig zur Zeit der Messen lediglich dasselbe Bild, was Hamburg, Bremen, Triest, Stettin alle Tage im Jahr gewähren.
    (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Frankfurt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfrɒŋkfurt]
  • Rhymes: -urt
  • Hyphenation: Frank‧furt

Proper noun

Frankfurt

  1. Frankfurt (the largest city in Hesse, Germany)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Frankfurt —
accusative Frankfurtot —
dative Frankfurtnak —
instrumental Frankfurttal —
causal-final Frankfurtért —
translative Frankfurttá —
terminative Frankfurtig —
essive-formal Frankfurtként —
essive-modal — —
inessive Frankfurtban —
superessive Frankfurton —
adessive Frankfurtnál —
illative Frankfurtba —
sublative Frankfurtra —
allative Frankfurthoz —
elative Frankfurtból —
delative Frankfurtról —
ablative Frankfurttól —
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Frankfurté —
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Frankfurtéi —
Possessive forms of Frankfurt
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Frankfurtom —
2nd person sing. Frankfurtod —
3rd person sing. Frankfurtja —
1st person plural Frankfurtunk —
2nd person plural Frankfurtotok —
3rd person plural Frankfurtjuk —

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • frankfurti

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Frankfurt.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌfɾɐ̃k.ˈfuʁt͡ʃ/, /ˈfɾɐ̃k.fuʁt͡ʃ/

Proper noun

Frankfurt f

  1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
    Synonym: Francoforte
  2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Frankfurt m (Cyrillic spelling Франкфурт)

  1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
  2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

Swedish

Proper noun

Frankfurt n (genitive Frankfurts)

  1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
  2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)
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