frote

English

Etymology

French frotter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɹəʊt/

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• Rhymes: -əʊt

Verb

frote (third-person singular simple present frotes, present participle froting, simple past and past participle froted)

1. (obsolete) To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.
   • 1599 (first performance; published 1600), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. ”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: Will Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Let a Man sweat once a week in a Hot-house, and be well rubb'd, and froted, with a good plump juicy Wench

   • 1577, Timothy Kendall, Flowers of Epigrammes:

     She smelles, she kisseth, and her corps
     She loves exceedingly; She tufts her heare , she frotes her face

Anagrams

• Foret, Forte, fetor, forte, ofter

Asturian

Verb

frote

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of frotar

Old High German

Adjective

frōte

1. Alternative form of fruote, strong masculine nominative/accusative plural of fruot

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾote/
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: fro‧te

Etymology 1

Deverbal from frotar.

Noun

frote m (plural frotes)

1. rub; rubbing

   Synonym: frotamiento

Etymology 2

Verb

frote

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

Further reading

• “frote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014