frase

Etymology

From Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “I tell, express”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.zə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.ze/

Noun

frase f (plural frases)

1. phrase
2. sentence

Etymology

From Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “I tell, express”).

Pronunciation

• audio

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• Hyphenation: fra‧se

Noun

frase f (plural frasen or frases, diminutive frasetje n)

1. phrase

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁaz/
• Homophones: frasent, frases

Verb

frase

1. first-person singular present indicative of fraser
2. third-person singular present indicative of fraser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fraser
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of fraser
5. second-person singular imperative of fraser

Noun

frase f (plural frases)

1. phrase

Etymology

From Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “I tell, express”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fra.ze/

Noun

frase f (plural frasi)

1. (linguistics) sentence
2. (linguistics) phrase, clause
3. expression, phrase
4. (music) phrase

Anagrams

• farse, fresa, sfare, sfera

Noun

frase m (definite singular frasen, indefinite plural fraser, definite plural frasene)

1. a phrase
2. (music) a phrase

Noun

frase m (definite singular frasen, indefinite plural frasar, definite plural frasane)

1. a phrase

Alternative forms

• phrase (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “I tell, express”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.zɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.zi/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.ze/
• Hyphenation: fra‧se

Noun

frase f (plural frases)

1. (grammar) sentence (grammatically complete series of words)
2. (music) phrase (a small, somewhat independent series of notes)

See also

• locução (“grammatical phrase”)

Etymology

From Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “I tell, express”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾase/

Noun

frase f (plural frases)

1. sentence
2. phrase

Further reading

• “frase” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.