frete

From Latin frīctae, plural of frīcta, feminine of frīctus.

frete (fpl)

1. (in the plural) pancakes

• fregur

Attested since 1433 (the derived verb fretar since the 13th century). Borrowing from Old French fret, from Middle Dutch vrecht (“cost of transport”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fra- (intensive prefix) + *aihtiz (“possession”). Cognate with Portuguese frete and Spanish flete.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾɛte̝/

frete m (plural fretes)

1. charge (demand of payment in exchange for the transportation of goods or services)
2. freight, cargo
   • 1433, Á. Rodríguez González & J. Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 36:

     do dia que aqui chegar a XV dias sea descargado et pago de seu frete

     in 15 days since the day that it here arrives it must be unloaded and paid for its freight

   Synonym: carga

3. charter (temporary hiring of a vehicle for transportation of freight)

• fretador
• fretar
• fretaxe

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fretar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fret”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “frete”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “frete”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

frete

1. inflection of fretar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

frēte

1. vocative masculine singular of frētus

frete

1. alternative form of fret (“ring, loop”)

frete

1. alternative form of freten (“to eat”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfre.te/

frete

1. inflection of fretan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ɛtɨ
• Hyphenation: fre‧te

Borrowed from French fret.^[1][2]

frete m (plural fretes)

1. freight
2. shipping (charge)

frete

1. inflection of fretar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

frete m (plural fretes)

1. (heraldry) fret

frete

1. inflection of fretar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “frete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024