# fresa
## Asturian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French fraise.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɾesa/ [ˈfɾe.sa]
* Rhymes: -esa
* Syllabification: fre‧sa

### Noun

fresa f (plural freses)
* strawberry (fruit)
* strawberry (plant)

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈfɾɛ.zə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈfɾɛ.za]
* Rhymes: -ɛza
* Hyphenation: fre‧sa

### Etymology 1

Uncertain:
* Borrowed from French fraise.
* Borrowed from Late Latin frēsa, nominalized feminine of frēsum, perfect passive participle of Latin frendere (“to grind”).“fresa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025</ref>
First attested in 1868.

#### Noun

fresa f (plural freses)
* milling cutter

##### Derived terms

* fresar

### Etymology 2

Deverbal from fresar (“to spawn”).

#### Noun

fresa f (plural freses)
* spawn, roe
* spawning
    Synonym: posta

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

fresa
* inflection of fresar (“to mill (with a milling cutter)”):
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

fresa
* inflection of fresar (“to spawn”):
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “fresa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “fresa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

### References

* ↑ “fresa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Hiligaynon
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish fresa.

### Noun

frésa
* strawberry

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfrɛ.za/
* Rhymes: -ɛza
* Hyphenation: frè‧sa

### Etymology 1

Probably borrowed from French fraise (18th century). See also Spanish fresa.

#### Noun

fresa f (plural frese)
* milling cutter (engineering)

##### Related terms

* fresare

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

fresa
* inflection of fresare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* ↑ http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ricerca/fresa/
* ↑ frèsa in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore

### Anagrams

* farse, frase, sfare, sfera

## Latin
### Participle

frēsa
* inflection of frēsus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Participle

frēsā
* ablative feminine singular of frēsus

### References

* "fresa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fraisu, from Proto-Germanic *fraisō.

### Noun

frēsa f
* demise
* danger
* fear

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: vrêse
** Dutch: vrees
*** Afrikaans: vrees

#### References

* “frēsa”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fraisō, whence also Old English frēse.

### Noun

frēsa f
* danger, peril, risk

#### References

Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (5th edition 2014)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from French fraise or from Vulgar Latin *frēsāre, from frēsum, past participle of Latin frendēre (“to grind”). See also Spanish fresa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɾɛ.zɐ/

### Noun

fresa f (plural fresas)
* milling cutter (rotary cutting tool)

### References

* ↑ “fresa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “fresa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɾesa/ [ˈfɾe.sa]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -esa
* Syllabification: fre‧sa

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French fraise (“strawberry”).

#### Noun

fresa f (plural fresas)
* strawberry
    Synonym: frutilla (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay)
* (Mexico, colloquial) snob
    Synonyms: esnob, pijo
* (Costa Rica) rich kid; spoiled brat
    Synonym: (Chile) pituco

##### Derived terms

* fresa chilena
* fresón
* trébol fresa

#### Adjective

fresa m or f (masculine and feminine plural fresas)
* (Mexico, colloquial) someone seen as snobby, or privileged by means of money or social status.

### Etymology 2

Possibly from French fraise (“milling cutter”), or from the verb fresar, from Vulgar Latin *frēsāre, from frēsum, perfect passive participle of Latin frendō (“to grind”).

#### Noun

fresa f (plural fresas)
* endmill
* milling cutter (rotary cutting tool)
* (dentistry) dental drill

##### Related terms

* fresar

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

fresa
* inflection of fresar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “fresa”, 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
* “fresa”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

### References

* ↑ "fresa", in Diccionario del español de México [Dictionary of Mexican Spanish] (in Spanish), online.
* ↑ “fraise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* ↑ “fresar”, 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