frais

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁɛ/

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• Homophones: feraient, ferais, ferait, fret

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French frais, from Old French freis, from Vulgar Latin *friscum. Related to English fresh.

Adjective

frais (feminine fraîche or fraiche, masculine plural frais, feminine plural fraîches or fraiches)

1. fresh

   Il est frais mon poisson !

   My fish is fresh!

2. cool (temperature)

   Une brise fraîche souffla soudain sur mon visage ; je frémis doucement.

   Suddenly a cool breeze blew across my face; I shivered a little.

3. recent, something that has just happened

   J’aime écouter les nouvelles fraîches du matin.

   I like listening to the recent news in the morning.

Usage notes

• The traditional feminine form is fraîche, whereas the 1990 spelling reform brought in fraiche.

Derived terms

• à la fraîche
• crème fraîche
• faire frais
• frais comme l’œil
• frais comme un gardon
• frais et dispos
• fromage frais
• vivre d’amour et d’eau fraiche

 

Related terms

• fraîcheur

 

Etymology 2

Oblique plural of Old French fret, frait, from Latin fractum.

Noun

frais m pl (plural only)

1. cost, charge

Usage notes

This meaning is a plurale tantum in Standard French, though the singular le frais is occasionally encountered, especially in Canadian French.

Derived terms

• à nouveaux frais
• arrêter les frais
• aux frais de la maison
• aux frais de la princesse
• en être pour ses frais
• faire les frais
• frais de port
• frais de scolarité
• frais d’inscription
• note de frais
• rentrer dans ses frais

 

Related terms

• défrayer

Further reading

• “frais”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• frisa

Irish

Alternative forms

• freis

Pronoun

frais (emphatic frais-sean)

1. third-person singular masculine of fré

Middle French

Alternative forms

• fres, frez, freis

Etymology

Inherited from Old French freis.

Adjective

frais m (feminine singular fraische, masculine plural frais, feminine plural fraisches)

1. fresh

Descendants

• French: frais m, fraîche f

Norman

Etymology

Inherited from Old French freis, from Vulgar Latin *friscum.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

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Adjective

frais m

1. (France) fresh

Derived terms

• fraîchement (“freshly”)

Occitan

Alternative forms

• fraisse

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin fraxinus. Compare Catalan freixe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfrajs]

Noun

frais m (plural fraiss)

1. common ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.)

Synonyms

• [1]: cantaridièr, cantarilhièr