freca
Appearance
See also: frecă
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *frekô (“an active or eager man, warrior, wolf”), from *frekaz (“active, bold, desirous, greedy”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]freca m
- warrior
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cempa
- hero, brave man
Declension
[edit]Weak:
singular | plural | |
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nominative | freca | frecan |
accusative | frecan | frecan |
genitive | frecan | frecena |
dative | frecan | frecum |
Descendants
[edit]- English: freak
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]a freca (third-person singular present freacă, past participle frecat) 1st conjugation
- (transitive) to rub
- a își freca mâinile ― to rub one’s hands
- se freca la ochi ― to rub one’s eyes
- (reflexive) to rub against [with de]
- Hainele îmi sunt pătate cu var fiindcă m-am frecat de zid.
- My clothes are stained with whitewash because I rubbed against the wall.
- (transitive, of egg whites) to beat
- (transitive, colloquial, figurative) to give a beating
- (transitive, colloquial) Short for freca la cap (“to bother”).
- (transitive, impersonal, colloquial, derogatory) Short for îl freca grija (“to be unduly concerned in somebody’s business”).
- 2006, Corneliu Porumboiu, 52:16 from the start, in Corneliu Porumboiu, director, A fost sau n-a fost? [12:08 East of Bucharest], spoken by Vasile Rebegea (Ion Apostoliu), Independența Film:
- ―Da’ ce tot te freacă pe tine, măi, ce-am făcut eu cu bradul meu?
- “Tell me already, what do you care so much what I did with my Christmas tree?”
- (transitive, slang, dated, education) to examine rigourously
- 1987 April, Oarga Petrișor Horia, letter to the editor, in Cinema[1], year 25, number 291, page 11:
- Din amfiteatru — suspens! — a ieșit un coleg! Deschid la maximum urechile. „Cît?“ „6!“ „Cum îi proful?“ „Te freacă?“
- Out of the lecture hall—what suspense!—came out a fellow student! I open my ears to the max. “What grade?” “A six!” “How’s the professor?” “Is he severe?”
Conjugation
[edit] conjugation of freca (first conjugation, no infix)
infinitive | a freca | ||||||
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gerund | frecând | ||||||
past participle | frecat | ||||||
number | singular | plural | |||||
person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | frec | freci | freacă | frecăm | frecați | freacă | |
imperfect | frecam | frecai | freca | frecam | frecați | frecau | |
simple perfect | frecai | frecași | frecă | frecarăm | frecarăți | frecară | |
pluperfect | frecasem | frecaseși | frecase | frecaserăm | frecaserăți | frecaseră | |
subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | să frec | să freci | să frece | să frecăm | să frecați | să frece | |
imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
affirmative | freacă | frecați | |||||
negative | nu freca | nu frecați |
Derived terms
[edit]- freca la cap
- freca la melodie
- freca menta
- freca ridichea
- frecare
- frecător
- frecătură
- frecătoare
- frecuș
- îl freca grija
- o freca
- o freca la rece
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- freca in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *preg-
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- Old English lemmas
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- Old English masculine nouns
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