frere – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of frere

Noun: frere
Sg.frere
Pl.freres

Genitive

Pl.freres; frerene

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Right ſo as bees / out swarmen from an hyue / Out of the deueles ers / ther gonne dryue / Twenty thouſand freres / on a route / And thurgh oute helle / swarmeden aboute […] (Just like bees swarm from a hive / Out of the devil's arse there were driven / Twenty thousand friars on a rout / And throughout Hell they swarmed all about […]) [1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Somnours Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 79, recto:]

Nouns inflected like frere

frere,

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French frere, from Latin frater, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Doublet of brother. See: Latin Nouns 'frater'.

Verbs referencing "frere"

English Nouns friar.

Translations