frore

See also: fröre

English

Etymology

From Middle English froren, past participle of fresen (“to freeze”), from Old English frēosan.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Adjective

frore (comparative more frore, superlative most frore)

1. (archaic) Extremely cold; frozen.
   • 1818, Percy Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto 9:

     We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade,
     Expiring in the frore and foggy air.

   • 1883, Religion in Europe, historically considered, page 13:

     For heavenly beauty, mid perennial springs, Feels not the change, which frore sad winter brings.

   • 1888, George Meredith, Meditation under Stars:

     Till we conceive their heavens hoar,
     Those lights they raise but sparkles frore,

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLVI, lines 15-16:

     Or if one haulm whose year is o'er / Shivers on the upland frore.

   • c. 1916, Rupert Brooke, Song:

     My heart all Winter lay so numb / The earth so dead and frore.

Translations

extremely cold; frozen

• Finnish: jääkylmä (fi)
• German: bitterkalt (de), eiskalt (de), klirrend kalt

Verb

frore

1. (archaic, rare) simple past and past participle of freeze
   • c. 1834, Mary Howitt, The Sea:

     And down below all fretted and frore,
     Were wrought the coral and the madrepore, […]

Anagrams

• Ferro, ferro-

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• fiore

Etymology

From earlier *flore, from Latin flōrem, accusative singular of flōs (“flower”), from Proto-Italic *flōs (accusative *flōzem), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃s (“flower, blossom”), derived from the root *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrore/

Noun

frore m (plural frores)

1. flower