fraga
Galician
Etymology
13th century, from Old Galician-Portuguese, from an Iberian Vulgar Latin fraga, plural of fragum, from fragōsus (“rough”), from fragor, from frangō (“break, shatter”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɾa.ɣɐ/
Noun
fraga f (plural fragas)
- an isolated forest with deciduous trees, herbs, mosses, lichens and a diverse fauna[1]
- 1948, Revista de Guimarães, volumes 58-60, page 303:
- Iba sempre a cabalo, pois tiña que andar máis de catro légoas por fragas, devesas e caborcos.
- He always rode a horse, as he had to travel over four leagues through isolated forests, sparse woods and gullies.
- rock, outcrop
Derived terms
- Fraga
- Fraga Alta
- Fraga Cha
- Fraga do Rei
- Fraga Redonda
- Fragarrara
- Fragas
- Fraguela
Related terms
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fraga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fraga”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fraga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fraga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fraga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Italian
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin frāga, noun use of the plural form of Classical Latin frāgum (“strawberry”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfra.ɡa/
- Rhymes: -aɡa
- Hyphenation: frà‧ga
Noun
fraga f (plural fraghe)
Further reading
- fraga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Noun
frāga
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of frāgum
References
- “fraga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fraga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "fraga", 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)
- “fraga”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
Occitan
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin frāga, from frāgum. Compare Catalan fraula, Italian fragola, among others.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɾa.ɣɔ/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: fra‧ga
Noun
fraga f (plural fragas)
- strawberry
- Synonym: majofa f
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *frāgu, from Proto-Germanic *frēgō. Related to Old English fræġn.
Noun
frāga f
Descendants
- Middle High German: vrāge
Old Saxon
Etymology
Related to Old English fræġn and the verb frignan (“to ask”), from Proto-West Germanic *fregnan.
Noun
frāga f
Descendants
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese fraga (compare Galician fraga), from Iberian Vulgar Latin fraga, plural of fragum (compare also Catalan and Occitan frau), from fragōsus (“rough”), from fragor, from frangō (“break, shatter”); cf. also Latin fragilis.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfɾa.ɡɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfɾa.ɡa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfɾa.ɡɐ/ [ˈfɾa.ɣɐ]
- Rhymes: -aɡɐ
- Hyphenation: fra‧ga
Noun
fraga f (plural fragas)
- cliff
- (Trás-os-Montes) an isolated forest with deciduous trees, herbs, mosses, lichens and a diverse fauna
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfraɡa]
Noun
fraga f
- definite nominative/accusative singular of fragă
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
From English flag or Dutch vlag.
Noun
fraga