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fra¹

  • /fɹɑː/

Rhymes with -ɑː

Where it comes from

PIE word

*bʰréh₂tēr

From Italian frate. See friar.

noun

  1. A title of a friar or monk: brother. You have at Naples your Fra Bernardino; / And I at Fondi have my Fra Bastiano, / The famous artist, who has come from Rome / To paint my portrait.

fra²

  • /fɹɑː/

Rhymes with -ɑː

adverb

  1. archaic, not comparable Archaic form of fro

Fra³

Where it comes from

Shortened form of Italian frate (“monk”).

noun Fras

  1. a title for a Roman Catholic monk or friar; equivalent to Brother

Fra⁴

proper noun

  1. Short form of Francis.

    Similar: Fra

FRA⁵

noun FRAs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of forward-rate agreement

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: monk, brother, agency, erf, studier, assessment, valuation, assessing, appraisal, evaluation, eng, pra, inter, frb, eff, cfr

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Chicago

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@misc{fra_2026,
  title = {fra},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fra},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}