freu

Borrowed from Catalan freu (“strait in between two islands”), from Latin fretum.

freu m (plural freus)

1. (geography, rare) strait

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “freu”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• IPA^(key): /fʁɔɪ̯/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ̯

freu

1. singular imperative of freuen