fra

Clipping of French français.

fra

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of French terms

• „fra“ on Abkürzungen.de

• IPA^(key): /fɹɑː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

From Italian frate. See friar.

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.

fra (not comparable)

1. Archaic form of fro.

• fra diavolo (etymologically unrelated)

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

• ɸəra

fra

1. eagle

Shortening of frare

fra m (plural fres)

1. brother

From Old Norse frá, from Proto-Germanic *fram. Cognate with English from, Swedish från, Norwegian Bokmål fra, Norwegian Nynorsk frå, Faroese frá, Icelandic frá.

• IPA^(key): /fra/, [fʁ̥ɑ]

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• Rhymes: -aːˀr

fra

1. from

From Latin frāter.

fra m

1. brother

From Latin īnfrā, which stems from inferus.^[1]

• 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).

fra

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

   Vi sarò fra due minuti ― I'll be there in two minutes

• • 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

• tra

• fra poco
• frattanto

Clipping of fratello.

• 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.

fra m (invariable)

1. (slang) bro, brother

Clipping of frate.

• IPA^(key): /fra/^*
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: fra

fra m (invariable)

1. friar (used as a title before a proper name)
   • Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi sposi:

     Fra Cristoforo, in piedi, ma col capo chino, rispose: — io posso dunque sperare che lei m’abbia concesso il suo perdono! E se l’ottengo da lei, da chi non devo sperarlo? Oh! s’io potessi sentire questa parola dalla sua bocca, perdono!

     Friar Cristoforo, standing, but with his head low, answered: — so I can hope that you have granted me forgiveness! And if I have obtained it from you, whom shall I not hope to obtain it from? Oh, if only I could hear this word from your mouth, forgiveness!

• far

From Latin infrā.

• IPA^(key): /fra/

fra

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

• tra

fra

1. alternative form of fro

From Old Norse frá.

• IPA^(key): /frɑː/

fra

1. from

• frå (Nynorsk)

• “fra” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

fra

1. fro, from

• English: fro

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fra”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• frō

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

frā

1. glad

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