fred

Etymology

Inherited from Latin frīgidus (“cold, cool, chilling”) (through a contracted Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form fridus, attested in a Pompeian inscription, or frigdus, fricdus, in the Appendix Probi; compare Occitan fred/freid/freg, French froid, Italian freddo, Spanish frío), from frīgeō, frīgēre (“be cold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfɾɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈfɾət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfɾet]

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

fred (feminine freda, masculine plural freds, feminine plural fredes)

1. cold, cool

   Antonym: calent

Noun

fred m or f (plural freds)

1. cold

   Antonym: calor

   tinc fred ― I'm cold

Further reading

• “fred” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fred”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “fred” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fred” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology 1

From Old Danish frith, from Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz, cognate with Swedish fred, frid, German Frieden, Dutch vrede.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

References

• “fred” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology

From Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /freːd/

Noun

fred m (definite singular freden)

1. peace

References

• “fred” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /freː/, /freːd/

Noun

fred m (definite singular freden)

1. peace

References

• “fred” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Alternative forms

• fraid (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader)
• freid (Sursilvan, Surmiran)

Etymology

From Latin frīgidus (“cold, cool, chilling”) (through a contracted Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form fridus, attested in a Pompeian inscription, or frigdus, fricdus), from frīgeō, frīgēre (“be cold”).

Adjective

fred m (feminine singular freda, masculine plural freds, feminine plural fredas)

1. (Sutsilvan) cold

Etymology

From Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (cf. German Low German: Freed, Freden, as another possible influence).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /freːd/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eːd

Noun

fred c

1. peace
2. a peace treaty

   freden i Versailles ― the treaty of Versailles

References

• fred in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• dref

Noun

fred (nominative plural freds)

1. joy
   • 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 21:

     O fred kion!

     Oh, what joy!