Freire
See also: freire
English
editEtymology
editProper noun
editFreire (plural Freires)
- A surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician].
Derived terms
editStatistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Freire is the 12514th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2477 individuals. Freire is most common among Hispanic/Latino (66.49%) and White (30.36%) individuals.
Anagrams
editGalician
editEtymology
editFrom freire (“friar”), from Old Occitan fraire.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editFreire m
- a surname
References
edit- “Freire” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Freire”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Galician Freire, from freire (“friar”), from Old Occitan fraire.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editFreire m or f by sense
- a surname from Galician
Categories:
- English terms derived from Galician
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Spanish
- English surnames from Galician
- Galician terms derived from Old Occitan
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Galician/ejɾe
- Rhymes:Galician/ejɾe/2 syllables
- Galician lemmas
- Galician proper nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- Galician surnames
- Spanish terms borrowed from Galician
- Spanish terms derived from Galician
- Spanish terms derived from Old Occitan
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/eiɾe
- Rhymes:Spanish/eiɾe/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish nouns with multiple genders
- Spanish masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- Spanish surnames
- Spanish surnames from Galician