frais

• IPA^(key): /fʁɛ/

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• Homophones: feraient, ferais, ferait, fret

Inherited from Middle French frais, from Old French freis, from Vulgar Latin *friscum. Related to English fresh. Doublet of fresque.

frais (feminine fraîche or fraiche, masculine plural frais, feminine plural fraîches or fraiches)

1. fresh (recently produced, unspoiled)

   Antonyms: avarié, rance, rassis

   Il est frais mon poisson ! ― My fish is fresh!

2. fresh (well-rested)

   Hyponyms: frais comme un gardon, frais et dispos

3. fresh, cool (of temperature, wind, etc.)

   Une brise fraîche souffla soudain sur mon visage ; je frémis doucement.

   Suddenly a cool breeze blew across my face; I shivered a little.

4. fresh, recent (just happened)

   J’aime écouter les nouvelles fraîches du matin.

   I like listening to the recent news in the morning.

• The traditional feminine form is fraîche, whereas the 1990 spelling reform brought in fraiche.

Oblique plural of Old French fret, frait, from Latin fractum.

frais m pl (plural only)

1. cost, charge

This meaning is a plurale tantum in Standard French, though the singular le frais is occasionally encountered, especially in Canadian French.

• défrayer

• “frais”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• frisa

• freis

frais (emphatic frais-sean)

1. third-person singular masculine of fré

• fres, frez, freis

Inherited from Old French freis. Doublet of frisque.

frais m (feminine singular fraische, masculine plural frais, feminine plural fraisches)

1. fresh

• French: frais m, fraîche f

Inherited from Old French freis, from Vulgar Latin *friscum.

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frais m

1. (continental) fresh

• fraîchement (“freshly”)

• fraisse

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin fraxinus. Compare Catalan freixe.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfrajs]

frais m (plural fraiss)

1. common ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.)^[1]

• [1]: cantaridièr, cantarilhièr