fra

Translingual

Symbol

fra

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

References

• „fra“ on Abkürzungen.de

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɹɑː/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

Etymology 1

From Italian frate. See friar.

Noun

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

Adverb

fra (not comparable)

1. Archaic form of fro.

See also

• fra diavolo (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• 'arf, AFR, AFr., ARF, Afr., FAR, RAF, RFA, arf, far

Abinomn

Alternative forms

• ɸəra

Noun

fra

1. eagle

Catalan

Etymology

Shortening of frare

Noun

fra m (plural fres)

1. brother

Danish

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /fra/,

• audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aːˀr

Preposition

fra

1. from

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin frāter.

Noun

fra m

1. brother

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin īnfrā, which stems from inferus.

Pronunciation

• 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

fra

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

   Vi sarò fra due minuti ― I'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 fratelli ― between brothers

  fra treni ― between trains

Synonyms

• tra

Derived terms

• fra poco
• frattanto

References

Etymology 2

Clipping of fratello

Pronunciation

• 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

fra m (invariable)

1. (slang) bro, brother

Anagrams

• far

Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin infrā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fra/

Preposition

fra

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

Synonyms

• tra

Middle English

Preposition

fra

1. from

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse frá.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frɑː/

Preposition

fra

1. from

Derived terms

See also

• frå (Nynorsk)

References

• “fra” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• frō

Etymology

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

Adjective

frā

1. glad

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: vrô
  • Plautdietsch: froo
  • → Danish: fro