frit

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English

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Etymology 1

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Either from French fritte, from frit (fried), or else from Italian fritta f (fried).

Noun

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frit (countable and uncountable, plural frits)

  1. A fused mixture of materials used to make glass.
  2. (archaeology) A similar material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. (eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age)
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Verb

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frit (third-person singular simple present frits, present participle fritting, simple past and past participle fritted)

  1. To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture
  2. To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
    • 1831, Benjamin Silliman, Elements of Chemistry:
      equal parts of the calcined and roasted ore, of ground flints and potash, are fritted together and then fused

Etymology 2

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Dialectal past participle of fright (frighten), formed on the model of bite:bit and light:lit. Compare the parallel formation fit (fought).

Adjective

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frit (comparative more frit, superlative most frit)

  1. (UK, regional) Frightened.
    • 1983 Margaret Thatcher, Prime minister's questions, 19 April:
      The right hon. Gentleman is afraid of an election, is he? Afraid? Frightened? Frit? Could not take it? Cannot stand it? If I were going to cut and run, I should have gone after the Falklands.
    • 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 272:
      “We shoulder life. We know its ins and outs. We've felt the draught at either end of it. What you're most frit of, that's our bread and jam, and none of us ain't got no time to spare on ignorant, bad-mannered little boys.”

Etymology 3

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Noun

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frit (plural frits)

  1. A frit fly.

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Danish

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Adjective

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frit

  1. neuter singular of fri

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French, from Latin frīctus.

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Participle

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frit (feminine frite, masculine plural frits, feminine plural frites)

  1. past participle of frire

Adjective

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frit (feminine frite, masculine plural frits, feminine plural frites)

  1. fried
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Further reading

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Latin

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Etymology

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Uncertain;[1] proposed derivations include:

Noun

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frit n (indeclinable)

  1. awn

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References

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  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “frit”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 550
  • frit”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • frit in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norman

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Norman Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nrf

Etymology

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From Old French fruit, from Latin fructus.

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Noun

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frit m (plural frits)

  1. (Jersey, France) fruit

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Old Irish

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Pronoun

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frit

  1. second-person singular of fri

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Determiner

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frit

  1. Univerbation of fri +‎ do (your sg)