frivol

From French frivole, from Latin frīvolus (“trifling, worthless”).

frivol (third-person singular simple present frivols, present participle frivolling or frivoling, simple past and past participle frivolled or frivoled)

1. (intransitive) To behave frivolously.
   • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 20:

     “I will act, dance, ride, frivol, talk scandal, dine out, and appropriate the legitimate captives of any woman I choose, until I d-r-r-rop, or a better woman than I puts me to shame before all Simla, — and it's dust and ashes in my mouth while I'm doing it!”

2. (intransitive) To trifle.

frivol (plural frivols)

1. An unserious person; a shallow person.
2. An idle diversion or pastime; a frivolity.

• frivolous
• frivolity

Borrowed from French frivole, from Latin frīvolus.

• IPA^(key): /fʁiˈvoːl/

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frivol (strong nominative masculine singular frivoler, comparative frivoler, superlative am frivolsten)

1. saucy; sleazy; ribald (sexual in a frivolous way)
2. (archaic) frivolous; characterised by levity

• Frivolität

• “frivol” in Duden online
• “frivol” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from French frivole.

frivol m or n (feminine singular frivolă, masculine plural frivoli, feminine and neuter plural frivole)

1. frivolous

• frivolitate