"frette" meaning in French

See frette in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /fʁɛt/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-frette.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-frette (nom).wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-frette (adjectif).wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-frette.wav Forms: frettes [plural]
Etymology: From fretter, or Old French freit, from Latin frīgidus (“cold”). Etymology templates: {{inh|fr|fro|freit}} Old French freit, {{inh|fr|la|frīgidus||cold}} Latin frīgidus (“cold”) Head templates: {{fr-adj}} frette (plural frettes)
  1. (North America) alternative form of froid Tags: North-America, alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: froid
    Sense id: en-frette-fr-adj-6Y7b~7oZ Categories (other): North American French

Noun

IPA: /fʁɛt/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-frette.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-frette (nom).wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-frette (adjectif).wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-frette.wav Forms: frettes [plural]
Etymology: From fretter, or Old French freit, from Latin frīgidus (“cold”). Etymology templates: {{inh|fr|fro|freit}} Old French freit, {{inh|fr|la|frīgidus||cold}} Latin frīgidus (“cold”) Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} frette f (plural frettes)
  1. (heraldry) fret Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-frette-fr-noun-zgJ0CCa1 Categories (other): Heraldic charges Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
  2. (music) fret Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-frette-fr-noun-zgJ0CCa11 Categories (other): Music, French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 7 39 54 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 2 13 31 24 8 7 13 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 17 33 24 4 4 17 1 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.