# fra
## Translingual
### Symbol

fra
* (international standards) ISO 639-2/T & ISO 639-3 language code for French.

### References

* „fra“ on Abkürzungen.de

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɹɑː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː

### Etymology 1

* PIE word
* *bʰréh₂tēr
From Italian frate. See friar.

#### Noun

fra
* A title of a friar or monk: brother.
** a. 1883 (date written; first published 1883 January), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Prologue at Ischia”, in Michael Angelo: A Dramatic Poem, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], published 1884, →OCLC, part first, page 9:You have at Naples your Fra Bernardino; / And I at Fondi have my Fra Bastiano, / The famous artist, who has come from Rome / To paint my portrait.
** 1908, Thomas Hughes, History of the Society of Jesus in North America:The writer has spoken to his two companions, Fathers Eliseus and Elias, desiring them to go, if only to gather intelligence about those parts; but both are of one mind that the basis of operations, as laid down by Fra Simon, is not substantiated […]
** 2000, Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass:"She is in the hands of Mrs. Coulter," said Fra Pavel.

### Etymology 2
#### Adverb

fra (not comparable)
* Archaic form of fro.

### See also

* fra diavolo (etymologically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* 'arf, AFR, AFr., ARF, Afr., FAR, RAF, RFA, arf, far

## Abinomn
### Alternative forms

* ɸəra

### Noun

fra
* eagle

## Catalan
### Etymology

Shortening of frare

### Noun

fra m (plural fres)
* brother

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse frá, from Proto-Germanic *fram. Cognate with English from, Swedish från, Norwegian Bokmål fra, Norwegian Nynorsk frå, Faroese frá, Icelandic frá.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fra/, [fʁ̥ɑ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aːˀr

### Preposition

fra
* from

## Istriot
### Etymology

From Latin frāter.

### Noun

fra m
* brother

## Italian
### Etymology 1

From Latin īnfrā, which stems from inferus.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fra/$^*$, /fra/
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: fra
* This word may or may not trigger syntactic gemination of the following consonant; both possibilities are allowable. Hence fra due minuti (“in two minutes”) can be pronounced either /fra‿dˈdue miˈnuti/ (with gemination) or /fra ˈdue miˈnuti/ (without it).

#### Preposition

fra
* between
* among
* in (expression of time)
    Vi sarò fra due minuti ― I'll be there in two minutes

##### Usage notes

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** There is no difference between tra and fra, but tra is often preferred before words starting with “fr” whereas fra is used before words starting with “tr”:
    tra fratelli ― between brothers
    fra treni ― between trains

##### Synonyms

* tra

##### Derived terms

* fra poco
* frattanto

#### References

* ↑ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951

### Etymology 2

Clipping of fratello

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfra/$^*$
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: frà
* Unlike the above word, this word has primary stress and always triggers syntactic gemination of the following consonant.

#### Noun

fra m (invariable)
* (slang) bro, brother

### Etymology 3

Clipping of frate.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fra/$^*$
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: fra

#### Noun

fra m (invariable)
* friar (used as a title before a proper name)
** Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi sposi:Fra Cristoforo, in piedi, ma col capo chino, rispose: — io posso dunque sperare che lei m’abbia concesso il suo perdono! E se l’ottengo da lei, da chi non devo sperarlo? Oh! s’io potessi sentire questa parola dalla sua bocca, perdono!Friar Cristoforo, standing, but with his head low, answered: — so I can hope that you have granted me forgiveness! And if I have obtained it from you, whom shall I not hope to obtain it from? Oh, if only I could hear this word from your mouth, forgiveness!

### Anagrams

* far

## Ligurian
### Etymology

From Latin infrā.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fra/

### Preposition

fra
* between
* among
* in (expression of time)

#### Synonyms

* tra

## Middle English
### Preposition

fra
* from

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse frá.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /frɑː/

### Preposition

fra
* from

#### Derived terms

* derfra
* fraskille
* fravær
* fraværende
* sørfra

### See also

* frå (Nynorsk)

### References

* “fra” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Old English
### Preposition

fra
* fro, from

#### Descendants

* English: fro

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fra”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

## Old Saxon
### Alternative forms

* frō

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *frawaz, whence also Old Norse frár (“swift”).

### Adjective

frā
* glad

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: vrô
** Plautdietsch: froo
** → Danish: fro