frezar

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *frictiāre, a frequentative based ultimately on Latin fricāre (through its past participle frĭctus).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /fɾeˈθaɾ/ [fɾeˈθaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /fɾeˈsaɾ/ [fɾeˈsaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fre‧zar
• Homophone: (Latin America) fresar

Verb

frezar (first-person singular present frezo, first-person singular preterite frecé, past participle frezado)

1. to excrete
2. to spawn
3. to clean (a beehive of mess)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of frezar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			frezar
gerund			frezando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		frezado		frezada
		plural		frezados		frezadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	frezo	frezastú frezásvos	freza	frezamos	frezáis	frezan
	imperfect	frezaba	frezabas	frezaba	frezábamos	frezabais	frezaban
	preterite	frecé	frezaste	frezó	frezamos	frezasteis	frezaron
	future	frezaré	frezarás	frezará	frezaremos	frezaréis	frezarán
	conditional	frezaría	frezarías	frezaría	frezaríamos	frezaríais	frezarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	frece	frecestú frecésvos2	frece	frecemos	frecéis	frecen
	imperfect (ra)	frezara	frezaras	frezara	frezáramos	frezarais	frezaran
	imperfect (se)	frezase	frezases	frezase	frezásemos	frezaseis	frezasen
	future1	frezare	frezares	frezare	frezáremos	frezareis	frezaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		frezatú frezávos	frece	frecemos	frezad	frecen
	negative		no freces	no frece	no frecemos	no frecéis	no frecen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “disfrazar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 502

Further reading

• “frezar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10