frais

• IPA^(key): /fʁɛ/

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• Homophones: feraient, ferais, ferait, fret

From Middle French frais, from Old French fres, fris (“fresh, new, young, recent”), from Frankish *fresk, *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”). Cognate with Old High German frisc (“fresh, young, new”), Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”). More at fresh.

frais (feminine singular fraîche or fraiche, masculine plural frais, feminine plural fraîches or fraiches)

1. fresh

   Il est frais mon poisson !

   My fish is fresh!

2. cool (temperature)

   Une brise fraîche souffla soudain sur mon visage ; je frémis doucement.

   Suddenly a cool breeze blew across my face; I shivered a little.

3. recent, something that has just happened

   J’aime écouter les nouvelles fraîches du matin.

   I like listening to the recent news in the morning.

• The traditional feminine form is fraîche, whereas the 1990 spelling reform brought in fraiche

• fraîcheur
• frais comme un gardon
• fromage frais

Oblique plural of Old French fret, frait, from Latin fractum.

frais m pl (plural only)

1. cost, charge

This meaning is a plurale tantum in Standard French, though the singular le frais is occasionally encountered, especially in Canadian French.

• défrayer

• frisa

• “frais” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• freis

frais (emphatic frais-sean)

1. third-person singular masculine of fré

• fres, frez, freis, fresche, freche

frais m (feminine singular fraische, masculine plural frais, feminine plural fraisches)

1. fresh

• French: frais m, fraîche f

From Old French fresc, fresk (“fresh, new, young, recent”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”).

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frais m

1. (France) fresh

• fraîchement (“freshly”)