fraga

See also: Fraga, fragă, and fråga

Galician

FWOTD – 3 December 2013

Etymology

13th century, from Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese, from an Iberian Vulgar Latin fraga, plural of fragum, from fragōsus (“rough”), from fragor, from frangō (“break, shatter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.ɣɐ/

Noun

fraga f (plural fragas)

Fragas do Eume natural park

1. an isolated forest with deciduous trees, herbs, mosses, lichens and a diverse fauna
   • 1948, Revista de Guimarães, volumes 58–60, page 303:

     Iba sempre a cabalo, pois tiña que andar máis de catro légoas por fragas, devesas e caborcos.

     He always rode a horse, as he had to travel over four leagues through isolated forests, sparse woods and gullies.

2. rock, outcrop

Derived terms

• Fraga
• Fraga Alta
• Fraga Cha
• Fraga do Rei
• Fraga Redonda
• Fragarrara
• Fragas
• Fraguela

Related terms

• Fragoso

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fraga”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fraga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) frāga

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of frāgum

References

• “fraga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fraga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fraga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fraga”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

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Old High German

Etymology

Related to Old English fræġn.

Noun

frāga f

1. question

Descendants

• German: Frage
• Hunsrik: Froh
• Luxembourgish: Fro
• Vilamovian: frög
• Yiddish: פֿראַגע (frage)

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Old Saxon

Etymology

Related to Old English fræġn.

Noun

frāga f

1. question

Descendants

• German Low German: Fraag, Froge

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• frágua

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fraga (compare Galician fraga), from Iberian Vulgar Latin fraga, plural of fragum (compare also Catalan and Occitan frau), from fragōsus (“rough”), from fragor, from frangō (“break, shatter”); cf. also fragilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.ɣɐ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.ɡɐ/
• Hyphenation: fra‧ga

Noun

fraga f (plural s)

1. cliff