English

Proper noun

Freo

1. (Australian slang) Fremantle, a seaport in Western Australia.

Translations

Anagrams

• fore, Fore
• froe
• o-fer

Galician

Etymology

From Latin frēnum.

Noun

freo m ‎(plural freos)

1. brake

Related terms

• frear

Irish

Alternative forms

• freob

Pronunciation

• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /fˠɾˠoːbˠ/ (corresponding to the variant freob)

Pronoun

freo ‎(emphatic freosan)

1. third-person plural of fré

References

• Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 1977, Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht, 2nd edition, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 306.

Old English

Alternative forms

• frīo, freoh, frioh, friġ, frī, frȳ

Adjective

frēo

1. free, at liberty; exempt
   • c. 890, Alfred the Great, Laws

     Beo he freo

     he shall be free.

2. (poetic) noble, glad
   • c. 700 Cædmon, Metrical Paraphrase

     Ða wearþ worn afeded freora bearna

     then a number of noble children were brought forth.

Declension

Related terms

• frēond
• frēoġan
• friþ
• frīġ

Descendants

• Middle English: fre
  • English: free
  • Scots: fre

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ, a feminine form of *frawjô ‎(“lord”) (Old English frēa), from Proto-Indo-European *prōw- ‎(“master, judge”). Cognate with Old Saxon frūa, Old High German frouwa (German Frau), Old Norse freyja. The Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Slavic *prāvъ (Old Church Slavonic правъ ‎(pravŭ), Russian правый ‎(pravyj, “right”)), and the first element of Latin provincia.

Noun

frēo f

1. a woman
   • c. 700 Cædmon, Metrical Paraphrase

     Oþ-ðæt he funde freo fægroste

     until he found the fairest woman.

Related terms

• frēa