frequent
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Etymology 1 edit
From Old French frequent, from Latin frequens (“crowded, crammed, frequent, repeated, etc.”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhrek- (“to cram together”).[1]
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- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɹiː.kwənt/
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frequent (comparative more frequent or frequenter, superlative most frequent or frequentest)
- Done or occurring often; common.
- I take frequent breaks so I don't get too tired.
- There are frequent trains to the beach available.
- I am a frequent visitor to that city.
- 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy[1], Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:
- During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking [...]
- Occurring at short intervals.
- 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LV.2, page 31:
- Above, the frequent feudal towers / Through green leaves lift their walls of grey, [...]
- Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
- 1709, [Jonathan Swift], A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […], →OCLC, page 59:
- [E]very Man thinks he has laid in a ſufficient Stock of Merit, and my pretend to any Employment, provided he has been loud and frequent in declaring himſelf hearty for the Government.
- (obsolete) Full; crowded; thronged.
- 1603 (first performance; published 1605), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Seianus his Fall. A Tragœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
- 'Tis Caesar's will to have a frequent senate.
- (obsolete) Often or commonly reported.
- 1626, Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor:
- 'Tis frequent in the city he hath subdued / The Catti and the Daci.
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Etymology 2 edit
From Old French frequenter, from Latin frequentare (“to fill, crowd, visit often, do or use often, etc.”), from frequens (“frequent, crowded”).
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frequent (third-person singular simple present frequents, present participle frequenting, simple past and past participle frequented)
- (transitive) To visit often.
- I used to frequent that restaurant.
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- ^ Schwartzman, The Words of Mathematics: An Etymological Dictionary of Mathematical Terms Used in English
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- “frequent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “frequent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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Borrowed from French frequent.
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frequent (comparative frequenter, superlative frequentst)
- frequent
- Synonyms: veelvuldig, vaak
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Inflection of frequent | ||||
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uninflected | frequent | |||
inflected | frequente | |||
comparative | frequenter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | frequent | frequenter | het frequentst het frequentste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | frequente | frequentere | frequentste |
n. sing. | frequent | frequenter | frequentste | |
plural | frequente | frequentere | frequentste | |
definite | frequente | frequentere | frequentste | |
partitive | frequents | frequenters | — |
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frequent (strong nominative masculine singular frequenter, comparative frequenter, superlative am frequentesten)
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frequent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular frequent or frequente)