frade

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Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾade/
  • Rhymes: -ade
  • Hyphenation: fra‧de

Etymology 1

Already attested, as Romance, in 12th century Latin documents (Pumar dus Frades, 1174, Cartulary of Caaveiro). From Old Galician-Portuguese frade (“friar”), from Latin frater (“brother”), from Proto-Italic *frātēr (“brother”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr (“brother”). Doublet of freire.

Noun

frade m (plural frades)

  1. friar
    Synonyms: freire, monxe
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References

  • “frade” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “frade” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “frade” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “frade” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “frade” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

frade

  1. inflection of fradar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

frade

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese frade (“friar”), from Latin frater (“brother”), from Proto-Italic *frātēr (“brother”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr (“brother”). Doublet of freire, bróder, and brada.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ad͡ʒi, (Portugal) -adɨ
  • Hyphenation: fra‧de

Noun

frade m (plural frades)

  1. friar
    Synonyms: freire, frei
  2. angelfish (a marine fish of the family Pomacanthidae)
    Synonyms: paru, peixe-frade

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin frāter, from Proto-Italic *frātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

Pronunciation

Noun

frade m (plural frades)

  1. brother

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