frit
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Etymology 1 edit
French fritte, from frit (“fried”).
Noun edit
frit (countable and uncountable, plural frits)
- A fused mixture of materials used to make glass.
- (archaeology) A similar material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. (eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age)
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Verb edit
frit (third-person singular simple present frits, present participle fritting, simple past and past participle fritted)
- To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture
- To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
- 1831, Benjamin Silliman, Elements of Chemistry:
- equal parts of the calcined and roasted ore, of ground flints and potash, are fritted together and then fused
Etymology 2 edit
Dialectal past participle of fright (“frighten”), formed on the model of bite:bit and light:lit. Compare the parallel formation fit (“fought”).
Adjective edit
frit (comparative more frit, superlative most frit)
- (UK, regional) Frightened.
- 1983 Margaret Thatcher, Prime minister's questions, 19 April:
- The right hon. Gentleman is afraid of an election, is he? Afraid? Frightened? Frit? Could not take it? Cannot stand it? If I were going to cut and run, I should have gone after the Falklands.
- 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 272:
- “We shoulder life. We know its ins and outs. We've felt the draught at either end of it. What you're most frit of, that's our bread and jam, and none of us ain't got no time to spare on ignorant, bad-mannered little boys.”
- 1983 Margaret Thatcher, Prime minister's questions, 19 April:
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
frit (plural frits)
- A frit fly.
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Danish edit
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frit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French, from Latin frīctus.
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Participle edit
frit (feminine frite, masculine plural frits, feminine plural frites)
- past participle of frire
Adjective edit
frit (feminine frite, masculine plural frits, feminine plural frites)
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Further reading edit
- “frit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain;[1] proposed derivations include:
- From a root common to Ancient Greek θρίξ (thríx, “hair”).
- From Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewd-. Cognates include Latin frutex (“shrub”), Old English brēotan (“to break”), Old Irish broth (“awn”) and maybe Lithuanian brùzgas (“bush, shrub”).
Noun edit
frit n (indeclinable)
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References edit
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “frit”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 550
- “frit”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- frit in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French fruit, from Latin fructus.
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Noun edit
frit m (plural frits)
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- gardîn à frit (“orchard”) (Jersey)
Old Irish edit
Pronoun edit
frit
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Determiner edit
frit
- Univerbation of fri + do (“your sg”)