Noun: freire
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | freire |
| Singular f | freira |
| Plural m | freires |
| Plural f | freiras |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like freire
gigante,
elephante,
velhote,
freire,
infante,
mestre,
virtuose,
contramestre,
patife,
ogre,
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese freire, fraire, borrowed from Old Occitan fraire, from Latin frater (“brother”), from Proto-Italic *frātēr (“brother”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr (“brother”). Doublet of frade, bróder, and brada. See: Latin Nouns '
frater'.
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