frito

See also: Frito and fritó

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin frīctus, from frīgere (to fry).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾito̝/

Adjective

frito (feminine frita, masculine plural fritos, feminine plural fritas)

  1. fried
    Synonym: frixido

Participle

frito (feminine frita, masculine plural fritos, feminine plural fritas)

  1. (irregular) past participle of frixir
Derived terms

References

Etymology 2

Verb

frito

  1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of fritir

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾi.tu/

  • Rhymes: -itu
  • Hyphenation: fri‧to

Etymology 1

Irregular past participle of frigir, corresponding to Latin frīctus.

Adjective

frito (feminine frita, masculine plural fritos, feminine plural fritas)

  1. (cooking) fried (cooked by frying)
  2. (colloquial) screwed (in unavoidable trouble)
    Synonyms: (vulgar) fodido, encrencado, (colloquial) ferrado

Noun

frito m (plural fritos)

  1. (cooking, usually in the plural) fried food

Participle

frito (short participle, feminine frita, masculine plural fritos, feminine plural fritas)

  1. past participle of fritar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

frito

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fritar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾito/ [ˈfɾi.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ito
  • Syllabification: fri‧to

Etymology 1

Irregular past participle of freír (cf. freído), corresponding to Latin frīctus. After -ī-, Latin -ct- regularly corresponds to Spanish -t- (rather than Spanish -ch-).[1]

Adjective

frito (feminine frita, masculine plural fritos, feminine plural fritas)

  1. fried
  2. (figurative, colloquial) broken, busted, screwed
  3. (figurative, colloquial) fed up
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Tagalog: prito
  • Tausug: piritu

Noun

frito m (plural fritos)

  1. fry, fried dish

Verb

frito

  1. masculine singular past participle of freír

References

  1. ^ Penny, R. (2002). A History of the Spanish Language. 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press. p. 70.

Etymology 2

Verb

frito

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fritar

Further reading