Noun: frein
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | frein |
| Plural m | freins |
Sample Sentences
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frein de la langue (frenulum linguae)
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frein du prépuce (frenulum preputii penis)
Nouns inflected like frein
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old French frein, from Latin frēnum n. Cognate with Portuguese freio and Spanish freno.
2. Cf. the borrowed freiner. See: Latin Nouns '
frēnum', Portuguese Nouns '
freio', Spanish Nouns '
freno'.
Verbs referencing "frein"
Spanish Nouns
freno, Galician Nouns
freo, Portuguese Nouns
freio, Romanian Nouns
frână, Catalan Nouns
fre.
Translations