fresa

Borrowed from French fraise.

fresa f (plural freses)

1. strawberry (fruit)
2. strawberry (plant)

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -ɛza

Uncertain:

• Borrowed from French fraise.^[1]
• Borrowed from Late Latin frēsa, nominalized feminine of frēsum, perfect passive participle of Latin frendere (“to grind”).“fresa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025</ref>

First attested in 1868.

fresa f (plural freses)

1. milling cutter

• fresar

Deverbal from fresar (“to spawn”).

fresa f (plural freses)

1. spawning

   Synonym: posta

2. spawn, roe

fresa

1. inflection of fresar (“to mill (with a milling cutter)”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

fresa

1. inflection of fresar (“to spawn”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “fresa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fresa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Borrowed from Spanish fresa.

frésa

1. strawberry

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrɛ.za/
• Rhymes: -ɛza
• Hyphenation: frè‧sa

Probably borrowed from French fraise (18th century).^[1][2] See also Spanish fresa.

fresa f (plural frese)

1. milling cutter (engineering)

• fresare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fresa

1. inflection of fresare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• farse, frase, sfare, sfera

frēsa

1. inflection of frēsus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

frēsā

1. ablative feminine singular of frēsus

• fresa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Proto-West Germanic *fraisu, from Proto-Germanic *fraisō.

frēsa f

1. demise
2. danger
3. fear

• Middle Dutch: vrêse
  • Dutch: vrees
    • Afrikaans: vrees

• “frēsa”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *fraisō, whence also Old English frēse.

frēsa f

1. danger, peril, risk

Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (5th edition 2014)

Borrowed from French fraise^[1][2] or from Vulgar Latin *frēsāre, from frēsum, past participle of Latin frendēre (“to grind”). See also Spanish fresa.

fresa f (plural fresas)

1. milling cutter (rotary cutting tool)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾesa/

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• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: fre‧sa

Borrowed from French fraise (“strawberry”).

fresa f (plural fresas)

1. strawberry

   Synonym: frutilla (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay)

2. (Mexico, colloquial) snob

   Synonyms: esnob, pijo

3. (Costa Rica) rich kid; spoiled brat

   Synonym: (Chile) pituco

Possibly from French fraise (“milling cutter”),^[1] or from the verb fresar, from Vulgar Latin *frēsāre,^[2] from frēsum, perfect passive participle of Latin frendō (“to grind”).

fresa f (plural fresas)

1. endmill
2. milling cutter (rotary cutting tool)
3. (dentistry) dental drill

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fresa

1. inflection of fresar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “fresa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “fresa”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010