fresa

See also: fresá, and freŝa

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fraise.

Noun

fresa f (plural freses)

1. strawberry (fruit)
2. strawberry (plant)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfɾɛ.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈfɾə.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfɾe.za]
• Rhymes: -ɛza

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, 2024</ref>

First attested in 1868.

Noun

fresa f (plural freses)

1. milling cutter

Derived terms

• fresar

Etymology 2

Deverbal from fresar (“to spawn”).

Noun

fresa f (plural freses)

1. spawning

   Synonym: posta

2. spawn, roe

Etymology 3

Verb

fresa

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

Etymology 4

Verb

fresa

1. inflection of fresar (“to spawn”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. 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.

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish fresa.

Noun

frésa

1. strawberry

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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)

1. milling cutter (engineering)

Related terms

• fresare

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fresa

1. inflection of fresare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• farse, frase, sfare, sfera

Latin

Participle

frēsa

1. inflection of frēsus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

frēsā

1. 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 Saxon

Etymology

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

Noun

frēsa f

1. danger, peril, risk

Declension

Declension of frēsa (feminine n-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	frēsa	frēsun, frēsan, frēson
accusative	frēsun, frēsan, frēson	frēsun, frēsan, frēson
genitive	frēsun, frēsan, frēson	frēsono
dative	frēsun, frēsan, frēson	frēsun, frēsan, frēson
instrumental	—	—

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^(key): /ˈfɾɛ.zɐ/

Noun

fresa f (plural fresas)

1. milling cutter (rotary cutting tool)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾesa/ [ˈfɾe.sa]

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• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: fre‧sa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French fraise (“strawberry”).

Noun

fresa f (plural fresas)

1. strawberry

   Synonym: frutilla (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay)

2. (Mexico, colloquial) snob

   Synonyms: esnob, pijo

3. (Costa Rica) rich kid; spoiled brat

   Synonym: (Chile) pituco

Derived terms

• fresón
• trébol fresa

 

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)

1. endmill
2. milling cutter (rotary cutting tool)
3. (dentistry) dental drill

Related terms

• fresar

 

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fresa

1. inflection of fresar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “fresa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28