freire

See also: Freire and freiré

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese freire, fraire, from Old Occitan fraire, from Latin frater (“brother”). Doublet of frade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾejɾe/ [ˈfɾej.ɾɪ]
• Rhymes: -ejɾe
• Hyphenation: frei‧re

Noun

freire m (plural freires)

1. (literary) friar

   Synonyms: frade, monxe

Derived terms

• Frairía
• Freire
• freiría
• Freiría

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “freire”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “freire”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “freire”, 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), “freire”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• fraire
  • frayre, ffrayre
• frejre, freyre

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr

Proto-Italic *frātēr

Latin frāter

Old Occitan frairebor.

Old Galician-Portuguese frairemeta.

Old Galician-Portuguese freire

Metathesis of fraire, borrowed from Old Occitan fraire, from Latin frāter.

Noun

freire m (plural freires, feminine freira, feminine plural freiras)

1. friar

   Synonym: frade

Derived terms

• frei

Descendants

• Galician: freire
• Portuguese: freire

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “freire”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “fr@@re”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• UC, “freire”
• VPM, “freire”

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• frei

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾe(j).ɾi/ [ˈfɾe(ɪ̯).ɾi]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾɐj.ɾɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾɐj.ɾɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾej.ɾɨ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾej.ɾɨ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾe.ɾɨ/

• Hyphenation: frei‧re

Noun

freire m (plural freires, feminine freira, feminine plural freiras)

1. friar

   Synonym: frade

Further reading

• “freire”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “freire”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026