"transfrete" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: transfretes [present, singular, third-person], transfreting [participle, present], transfreted [participle, past], transfreted [past]
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], ultimately from Latin transfreto (“cross a strait or sea”), from trans (“across”) + fretum or fretus (“strait, channel”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm}} Middle English [Term?], {{der|en|la|transfreto||cross a strait or sea}} Latin transfreto (“cross a strait or sea”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} transfrete (third-person singular simple present transfretes, present participle transfreting, simple past and past participle transfreted)
  1. (dated, early modern English) To cross a channel or narrow sea. Tags: dated Related terms: fret, fretum, transfretation
    Sense id: en-transfrete-en-verb-jL9Nb0US Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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