French

Adjective

frais m ‎(feminine singular fraîche or fraiche, masculine plural frais, feminine plural fraîches or fraiches)

1. fresh

   Il est frais mon poisson !‎

   My fish is fresh!

2. cool (temperature)

   Une brise fraîche souffla soudain sur mon visage ; je frémis doucement.‎

   Suddenly a cool breeze blew across my face; I shivered a little.

3. recent, something that has just happened

   J’aime écouter les nouvelles fraîches du matin.‎

   I like listening to the recent news in the morning.

Usage notes

• The traditional feminine form is fraîche, whereas the 1990 spelling reform brought in fraiche

Related terms

• fraîcheur
• fromage frais

Etymology 2

Oblique plural of Old French fret, frait, from Latin fractum.

Noun

frais m pl ‎(plural only)

1. cost, charge

Usage notes

This meaning is a plurale tantum in Standard French, though the singular le frais is occasionally encountered, especially in Canadian French.

Related terms

• défrayer

Anagrams

• frisa

Irish

Alternative forms

• freis

Pronoun

frais ‎(emphatic frais-sean)

1. third-person singular masculine of fré

Middle French

Adjective

frais m ‎(feminine singular fraische, masculine plural frais, feminine plural fraisches)

1. fresh

Norman

Etymology

From Old French fresc, fresk ‎(“fresh, new, young, recent”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz ‎(“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preisk- ‎(“fresh”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

frais m

1. (Jersey) fresh

Derived terms

• fraîchement ‎(“freshly”)