freme
Italian
Verb
freme
- third-person singular present indicative of fremere
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
freme
- second-person singular present active imperative of fremō
Middle English
Alternative forms
- vreme, freame, freome
Etymology
From Old English freme, fremu (“advantage, gain, benefit”)
Noun
freme (plural fremes)
Derived terms
Derived terms
- fremen — To help (someone), to aid, advance, benefit, be profitable to, do good to
- fremful — Beneficial
- fremfulliche — Profitably
- fremfulnesse — Beneficial nature, effectiveness
- fremsomness — Beneficence
- fremung — Effect, good or salutary effect
- fulfremed — Fulfilled, accomplished; completed, perfected; complete, perfect.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *frami- (“going forth”). Akin to Proto-Germanic *framaz (“forward”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfreme/
Adjective
freme
- vigorous, flourishing
- good, strenuous, bold
- Fremu folces cwén. — The folk's bold queen. (Beowulf)
Declension
| Weak | Strong | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| case | singular | plural | case | singular | plural | ||||||||
| m | n | f | m | n | f | m | n | f | |||||
| nominative | frema | freme | freme | freman | nom. | freme | freme | fremu | freme | fremu, -e | frema, -e | ||
| accusative | freman | freme | freman | acc. | fremne | freme | freme | freme | fremu, -e | frema, -e | |||
| genitive | freman | fremra, fremena | gen. | fremes | fremes | fremre | fremra | ||||||
| dative | freman | fremum | dat. | fremum | fremum | fremre | fremum | ||||||
| instrumental | freme | ||||||||||||
Noun
freme f (nominative plural fremena)
- fremu, advantage, gain, benefit, profit, good
- Ðæs we mágon fremena gewinnan. — Of what we may advantages gain.
Derived terms
- fremednes f — accomplishment, fulfilment, effect
- fremful — useful, profitable, beneficial, fremeful
- fremfullīce — efficaciously, successfully
- fremfulnes f. — utility, profit
- fremian, fremman — to further, advance, support, avail, benefit, do good
- fremlic — profitable
- fremming f — purpose, effect, performance, progress
- fremsum — beneficent, benign, kind, gracious
- fremsumlic — benignant, kind
- fremsumllīce — benignantly, kindly
- fremsumnes f. — benefit, benignity, kindness, liberality
Descendants
- English frim
References
- 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", freme et al.
- Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.), freme.
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