frais

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle French frais, from Old French fres, fris (“fresh, new, young, recent”), from Frankish *fresk, *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”). Cognate with Old High German frisc (“fresh, young, new”), Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”). More at fresh.

Adjective

frais (feminine singular 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

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.

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Further reading

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronoun

frais (emphatic frais-sean)

  1. third-person singular masculine of fré

Middle French

Alternative forms

Adjective

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

  1. fresh

Descendants

Norman

Etymology

From Old French fresc, fresk (“fresh, new, young, recent”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

frais m

  1. (France) fresh

Derived terms

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