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Etymology
Borrowed from German Fräulein.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ino
- Hyphenation: fraŭ‧li‧no
Noun
fraŭlino (accusative singular fraŭlinon, plural fraŭlinoj, accusative plural fraŭlinojn)
- unmarried woman, spinster
- young woman
- (obsolete) Miss
- 1937, La Praktiko, quoted in Lidia, Wendy Heller, page 261:
Fraŭlino Lidia Zamenhof (vojaĝanta al Ameriko): Nun flugas mi de loko al loko!- Miss Lidia Zamenhof (traveling to America): Now I fly from place to place!
Usage notes
Obsolete as a title, superseded by sinjorino, which previously only referred to married women but has become generalized; still available if desired when translating titles equivalent to "Miss" in other languages. See usage notes under fraŭlo.
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