Fach

Unadapted borrowing from German Fach, short for Stimmfach. Doublet of fack.

• (non-anglicized) IPA^(key): /fax/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Fach (plural Fächer)

1. (music) A method of classifying singers, primarily opera singers, according to the range, weight, and color of their voices.

As an unadapted borrowing, this word is usually both capitalized (in accordance with German orthographic rules) and italicized in English-language texts.

From Middle High German vach, from Old High German fah, from Proto-West Germanic *fak, from Proto-Germanic *faką.

• IPA^(key): /fax/, [fäχ]

• Audio (Austria):

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Fach
• Rhymes: -ax

Fach n (strong, genitive Faches or Fachs, plural Fächer)

1. compartment
2. drawer
3. subject

• → English: Fach
• → Esperanto: fako
• → Kashubian: fach
• → Luxembourgish: Fach
• → Polish: fach

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From German Fach, from Middle High German vach, from Old High German fah, from Proto-West Germanic *fak, from Proto-Germanic *faką.

The contemporary form is clearly of German origin; there may have been an inherited *Faach, but the older dictionaries do not give it. Compare Gefaach.

• IPA^(key): /faχ/, [fɑχ]
• Rhymes: -ɑχ

Fach n (plural Fächer)

1. compartment
2. pigeonhole, shelf
3. subject, field, discipline

• Fachmann
• Fachsprooch
• Fachwëssen

Fach n (plural Fecha)

1. subject, course of study