frade

Galician

Etymology

Already attested, as Romance, in 12th century Latin documents (Pumar dus Frades, 1174, Cartulary of Caaveiro). From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese frade (“friar”), from Latin frater (“brother”), from Proto-Italic *frātēr (“brother”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr (“brother”). Doublet of freire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɾaðɪ]

Noun

frade m (plural frades)

1. friar

   Synonyms: freire, monxe

Derived terms

• cadela de frade
• comer coma un frade
• Fradería
• Frades

Related terms

• confrade
• confraría
• frei
• freire
• freiría

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “frade”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “frade”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “frade”, 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), “frade”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “frade”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

frade

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese frade (“friar”), from Latin frater (“brother”), from Proto-Italic *frātēr (“brother”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr (“brother”). Doublet of freire, bróder, and brada.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.d͡ʒi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.d͡ʒi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.de/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.dɨ/ [ˈfɾa.ðɨ]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ad͡ʒi, (Portugal) -adɨ
• Hyphenation: fra‧de

Noun

frade m (plural frades)

1. friar

   Synonyms: freire, frei

2. angelfish (a marine fish of the family Pomacanthidae)

   Synonyms: paru, peixe-frade

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Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin frāter, from Proto-Italic *frātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrade/

Noun

frade m (plural frades)

1. brother

See also

• sorre
• tziu