frade

Galician

Etymology

Already attested in the 12th century in 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): /ˈfɾaðe̝/

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

• Template:R:DDGM
• “frade” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “frade” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.ðɨ/
• Hyphenation: fra‧de
• Rhymes: -adʒi

Noun

frade m (plural frades)

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

Synonyms

• (friar): freire, frei
• (angelfish): paru, peixe-frade

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Sardinian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾaðe/

Noun

frade m (plural frades) (Limba Sarda Comuna)

1. brother

See also

• sorre
• tziu