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-free

  • /fɹiː/

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Where it comes from

From Middle English -fre, -freo (as in scotfre, gauelfre, gafolfreo, etc.), from Old English -frēo ("free; free from"; as in scotfrēo, gafolfrēo), from Proto-West Germanic *-frī (“-free”). Compare Dutch -vrij (“-free”), German -frei (“-free”), Danish -fri (“-free”), Swedish -fri (“-free”), Norwegian -fri (“-free”). More at free.

suffix

  1. morpheme, not comparable Free from; devoid of; without. Sweetgreen told CNN the company was “proud to share that we are currently in the process of rolling out new PFAS-free focaccia bags that will be available in all Sweetgreen locations by the end of Q2.”

    Similar: an-, ex-, -less

Translations

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suffix free from; without

Españolsin, libre de
Portuguêssem, livre de
Françaissans
Deutsch-frei
Italianosenza
Русскийбез- bez-, бес- bes-

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MLA

"-free." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/-free. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

-free. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/-free

Chicago

"-free." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/-free.

BibTeX
@misc{free_2026,
  title = {-free},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/-free},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}