# frequent
## English
### Etymology 1

From Old French frequent, from Latin frequens (“crowded, crammed, frequent, repeated, etc.”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ- (“to cram together”).

#### Pronunciation

* (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɹiː.kwənt/
* Audio (US):(file)

#### Adjective

frequent (comparative more frequent or frequenter, superlative most frequent or frequentest)
* Done or occurring often; common.
    I take frequent breaks so I don't get too tired.
    There are frequent trains to the beach available.
    I am a frequent visitor to that city.
** 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy‎, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking [...]
* Occurring at short intervals.
** 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LV.2, page 31:Above, the frequent feudal towers / Through green leaves lift their walls of grey, [...]
* Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
** 1709, [Jonathan Swift], A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […], →OCLC, page 59:[E]very Man thinks he has laid in a ſufficient Stock of Merit, and my pretend to any Employment, provided he has been loud and frequent in declaring himſelf hearty for the Government.
* (obsolete) Full; crowded; thronged.
** 1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):'Tis Caesar's will to have a frequent senate.
* (obsolete) Often or commonly reported.
** 1626, Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor:'Tis frequent in the city he hath subdued / The Catti and the Daci.

##### Synonyms

* regular
* recurring
* continual
* steady

##### Antonyms

* rare
* uncommon

##### Derived terms

* equifrequent
* frequentative
* frequent flier, frequent flyer
* frequentism
* frequentist
* frequentistic
* frequentness
* hyperfrequent
* monofrequent
* nonfrequent
* normofrequent
* overfrequent
* semifrequent
* unfrequent

##### Related terms

* frequency
* frequently
* infrequent
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##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Old French frequenter, from Latin frequentare (“to fill, crowd, visit often, do or use often, etc.”), from frequens (“frequent, crowded”).

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /fɹɪˈkwɛnt/
* Rhymes: -ɛnt
* Audio (US):(file)

#### Verb

frequent (third-person singular simple present frequents, present participle frequenting, simple past and past participle frequented)
* (transitive) To visit often.
    I used to frequent that restaurant.

##### Derived terms

* frequentable
* frequentage
* frequentation
* frequenter
* unfrequent
* unfrequented

##### Translations
### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “frequēns”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 242
* ↑ Schwartzman, The Words of Mathematics: An Etymological Dictionary of Mathematical Terms Used in English

### Further reading

* “frequent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “frequent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French frequent.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /frɛˈkʋɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: fre‧quent
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Adjective

frequent (comparative frequenter, superlative frequentst)
* frequent
    Synonyms: veelvuldig, vaak

#### Derived terms

* hoogfrequent

#### Related terms

* frequenteren
* frequentie

## German
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frequens.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fʁeˈkvɛnt]
* Hyphenation: fre‧quent
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

frequent (strong nominative masculine singular frequenter, comparative frequenter, superlative am frequentesten)
* (dated or medicine) frequent

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “frequent” in Duden online
* “frequent” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Old French
### Adjective

frequent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular frequent or frequente)
* frequent; often

#### Descendants

* → English: frequent
* French: fréquent