# freno
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈfɾɛ.nu]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈfɾə.no]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈfɾe.no]

### Verb

freno
* first-person singular present indicative of frenar

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from French frein, Italian freno, Spanish freno, Portuguese freio, from Latin frēnum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfreno/
* Rhymes: -eno

### Noun

freno (plural freni)
* brake (mechanism used to stop a car in motion)

#### Derived terms

* frenagar (“to brake”)

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfre.no/, /ˈfrɛ.no/
* Rhymes: -eno, -ɛno
* Hyphenation: fré‧no, frè‧no

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin frēnum.

#### Noun

freno m (plural freni)
* brake
* (figurative) check, curb, control, restraint
    Synonyms: controllo, limite, restrizione
* bit (of a horse)

##### Related terms

* frenare
* frenaggio
* frenata
* frenatura
* frenulo

##### Descendants

* → Greek: φρένο (fréno)

#### See also

* briglia

#### Further reading

* freno in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* freno in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

freno
* first-person singular present indicative of frenare

### References

* ↑ freno in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* nefro-

## Latin
### Etymology

From frēnum (“bridle”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfreː.noː/, [ˈfreːnoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfre.no/, [ˈfrɛːno]

### Verb

frēnō (present infinitive frēnāre, perfect active frēnāvī, supine frēnātum); first conjugation
* to fit a bridle
* to curb, restrain, check or brake
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.522–523:“Ō Rēgīna, novam cui condere Iuppiter urbem iūstitiāque dedit gentīs frēnāre superbās, [...].”“O Queen, to whom Jupiter granted [dominion] to found a new city and to restrain proud peoples with justice, [...].”

#### Conjugation

$^1$The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

#### Derived terms

* dēfrēnātus
* effrēnō
* infrēnō
* refrēnō

#### Descendants

* Asturian: sofronar, esfronar
* Italian: frenare (possibly)
* Old French: frener
* Portuguese: frear; → frenar
* Sicilian: frinari
* Spanish: frenar (possibly)
* → French: freiner

### Noun

frēnō
* dative/ablative singular of frēnum

### References

* “freno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “freno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* freno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) with loose reins: freno remisso; effusis habenis

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɾeno/ [ˈfɾe.no]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -eno
* Syllabification: fre‧no

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin frēnum. Cognate with Portuguese freio and French frein.

#### Noun

freno m (plural frenos)
* (automotive) brake (device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel or vehicle)
* bit (piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal)
* check, restraint (control, limit, or stop)
* (in the plural, Mexico) braces (device for straightening teeth)

##### Derived terms

* cinta de frenos
* disco de freno
* freno de disco
* freno de mano
* freno de tambor
* líquido de frenos
* luz de freno
* pastilla de freno
* pastilla de frenos
* tascar el freno

##### Related terms

* desenfrenado
* enfrenar
* frenar

##### Descendants

* → Bikol Central: preno
* → Cebuano: preno
* → Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec: frenu
* → Southeastern Tepehuan: piriiñ
* → Tagalog: preno

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

freno
* first-person singular present indicative of frenar

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* freón