frit

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɹɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• frit brick
• fritless

Translations

fused mixture of materials

• Bulgarian: стъкломаса f (stǎklomasa)
• Catalan: frita (ca) f
• French: fritte (fr) f
• German: Fritte (de) f
• Polish: fryta f
• Portuguese: frita (pt) f

Verb

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

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

Adjective

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

Noun

frit (plural frits)

1. A frit fly.

See also

• frit away
• frit fly

Anagrams

• FTIR, rift

Danish

Adjective

frit

1. neuter singular of fri

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin frīctus.

Pronunciation

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Participle

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

1. past participle of frire

Adjective

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

1. fried

Related terms

• frire
• friture

See also

• frite

Further reading

• “frit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; proposed derivations include:

• From a root common to Ancient Greek θρίξ (thríx, “hair”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewd-. Cognates include Latin frutex (“shrub”), Old English brēotan (“to break”), Old Irish broth (“awn”) and maybe Lithuanian brùzgas (“bush, shrub”).

Noun

frit n (indeclinable)

1. awn

Synonyms

• arista

References

• “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

Etymology

From Old French fruit, from Latin fructus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

frit m (plural frits)

1. (Jersey, France) fruit

Derived terms

• gardîn à frit (“orchard”) (Jersey)

Old Irish

Pronoun

frit

1. second-person singular of fri

Alternative forms

• friut

Determiner

frit

1. Univerbation of fri +‎ do (“your sg”)