fra

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See also: FRA, Fra, fra-, fra., frá, and frå

Translingual

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Symbol

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fra

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/T & ISO 639-3 language code for French.

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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PIE word
*bʰréh₂tēr

From Italian frate. See friar.

Noun

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fra

  1. A title of a friar or monk: brother.
    • a. 1883 (date written; first published 1883 January), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Prologue at Ischia”, in Michael Angelo: A Dramatic Poem, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company [], published 1884, →OCLC, part first, page 9:
      You have at Naples your Fra Bernardino; / And I at Fondi have my Fra Bastiano, / The famous artist, who has come from Rome / To paint my portrait.
    • 1908, Thomas Hughes, History of the Society of Jesus in North America:
      The writer has spoken to his two companions, Fathers Eliseus and Elias, desiring them to go, if only to gather intelligence about those parts; but both are of one mind that the basis of operations, as laid down by Fra Simon, is not substantiated []
    • 2000, Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass:
      "She is in the hands of Mrs. Coulter," said Fra Pavel.

Etymology 2

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Adverb

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fra (not comparable)

  1. Archaic form of fro.

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Anagrams

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Abinomn

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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fra

  1. eagle

Catalan

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Etymology

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Shortening of frare

Noun

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fra m (plural fres)

  1. brother

Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse frá, from Proto-Germanic *fram. Cognate with English from, Swedish från, Norwegian Bokmål fra, Norwegian Nynorsk frå, Faroese frá, Icelandic frá.

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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fra

  1. from

Istriot

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Etymology

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From Latin frāter.

Noun

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fra m

  1. brother

Italian

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Etymology 1

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From Latin īnfrā, which stems from inferus.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fra/*, /fra/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: fra
  • This word may or may not trigger syntactic gemination of the following consonant; both possibilities are allowable. Hence fra due minuti (in two minutes) can be pronounced either /fra‿dˈdue miˈnuti/ (with gemination) or /fra ˈdue miˈnuti/ (without it).

Preposition

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fra

  1. between
  2. among
  3. in (expression of time)
    Vi sarò fra due minutiI'll be there in two minutes
Usage notes
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    • There is no difference between tra and fra, but tra is often preferred before words starting with “fr” whereas fra is used before words starting with “tr”:
    tra fratellibetween brothers
    fra trenibetween trains
Synonyms
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Derived terms
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References

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  1. ^ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951

Etymology 2

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Clipping of fratello

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfra/*
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: frà
  • Unlike the above word, this word has primary stress and always triggers syntactic gemination of the following consonant.

Noun

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fra m (invariable)

  1. (slang) bro, brother

Etymology 3

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Clipping of frate.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fra/*
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: fra

Noun

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fra m (invariable)

  1. friar (used as a title before a proper name)
    • Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi sposi:
      Fra Cristoforo, in piedi, ma col capo chino, rispose: — io posso dunque sperare che lei m’abbia concesso il suo perdono! E se l’ottengo da lei, da chi non devo sperarlo? Oh! s’io potessi sentire questa parola dalla sua bocca, perdono!
      Friar Cristoforo, standing, but with his head low, answered: — so I can hope that you have granted me forgiveness! And if I have obtained it from you, whom shall I not hope to obtain it from? Oh, if only I could hear this word from your mouth, forgiveness!

Anagrams

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Ligurian

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Etymology

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From Latin infrā.

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fra

  1. between
  2. among
  3. in (expression of time)

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Middle English

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Preposition

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fra

  1. from

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse frá.

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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fra

  1. from

Derived terms

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References

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Old Saxon

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *frawaz, whence also Old Norse frár (swift).

Adjective

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frā

  1. glad

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Middle Low German: vrô