fre

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin frēnum. Compare Romanian frâu.

fre m (plural frerë)

1. bridle
2. constraint
3. harness
4. rein

From Latin frēnum (compare Occitan fren, French frein, Spanish freno), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to hold”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfɾɛ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈfɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfɾe]

fre m (plural frens)

1. brake
2. (anatomy) frenulum
3. bit (part of a bridle)

   Synonym: mos

• electrofrè
• servofrè

• frenar

• “fre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “fre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From French frais

• IPA^(key): /fʁe/

fre

1. chilly
2. chilled
3. cold
4. fresh

• freser

• so

• free, freo, vre, vreo, fri, vri, vry

Inherited from Old English frēo, from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz. Some forms are from friġ, an alternate Old English form.

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• IPA^(key): /freː/, /friː/
• Rhymes: -eː

fre (plural and weak singular fre, comparative frerre, superlative freest)

1. free, independent, unrestricted:
   1. Having the status of a freeman, not enslaved.
   2. Liberated from iniquity; redeemed.
      • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Joon 8:32, page 38v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

        / and ȝe ſchulen knowe þe treuþe .· ⁊ þe treuþe ſchal make ȝou fre

        And you'll know the truth, and the truth will make you free.

   3. Free from a duty, tax, or obligation.
   4. Having free action or free will.
2. unblocked, clear, useable
3. charitable, polite, virtuous

• fredom
• freen
• frend

• English: free
• Scots: fre

• “frẹ̄, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-24.

fre

1. freely, lacking opposition
2. With glee, enthusiastically

• “frẹ̄, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-24.

• free, frey

From , fre, freo, from Old English frēo (“free”), from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“beloved, not in bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“dear, beloved”), from *preyH- (“to love, to please”). Related to friend. Cognate with West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), Low German free (“free”), German frei (“free”), Friede (“peace”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian fri (“free”), Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá).

fre (comparative mair fre, superlative maist fre)

1. free

fre (third-person singular simple present fres, present participle frein, simple past fret, past participle fret)

1. to free

fre

1. Abbreviation of fredag (“Friday”).

• (days of the week) veckodagar; måndag, tisdag, onsdag, torsdag, fredag, lördag, söndag ^{(Category: sv:Days of the week)}

• ref

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1. a seed of a plant