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fresta

fresta

Icelandic

Verb

fresta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative frestaði, supine frestað)

  1. (transitive, with dative) put off, postpone

Conjugation

Derived terms

Noun

fresta

  1. indefinite genitive plural of frestur

Portuguese

fresta

Etymology

From Old Portuguese fẽestra (window), from Latin fenestra (window), of Etruscan origin. Cognate with Galician fiestra, Spanish hiniestra, Catalan finestra, Occitan fenèstra, French fenêtre, Italian finestra and Romanian fereastră.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfɾɛʃ.tɐ/
  • Hyphenation: fres‧ta

Noun

fresta f (plural frestas)

  1. chink, crack; a small hole or crack in a wall, curtain or other objects by which one can see what is beyond or outside them.
  2. a narrow window