frico

English

Etymology

From Italian frico. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

frico

1. A traditional Friulian cheese dish in which cheese is shredded and then pan-fried.

Translations

cheese dish

• Cimbrian: frikh m
• Friulian: frico m
• Italian: frico (it) m
• Slovene: frika f

Latin

Etymology

Intensive popular form of friō. Compare with fodiō - fodicō, vellō - vellicō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfri.koː/, [ˈfrɪkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfri.ko/, [ˈfriːko]

Verb

fricō (present infinitive fricāre, perfect active fricuī, supine frictum or fricātum); first conjugation

1. to rub
2. to chafe

Usage notes

The supine form fricātum is rare.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of fricō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	fricō		fricās		fricat		fricāmus		fricātis		fricant
	imperfect	fricābam		fricābās		fricābat		fricābāmus		fricābātis		fricābant
	future	fricābō		fricābis		fricābit		fricābimus		fricābitis		fricābunt
	perfect	fricuī		fricuistī		fricuit		fricuimus		fricuistis		fricuērunt, fricuēre
	pluperfect	fricueram		fricuerās		fricuerat		fricuerāmus		fricuerātis		fricuerant
	future perfect	fricuerō		fricueris		fricuerit		fricuerimus		fricueritis		fricuerint
passive	present	fricor		fricāris, fricāre		fricātur		fricāmur		fricāminī		fricantur
	imperfect	fricābar		fricābāris, fricābāre		fricābātur		fricābāmur		fricābāminī		fricābantur
	future	fricābor		fricāberis, fricābere		fricābitur		fricābimur		fricābiminī		fricābuntur
	perfect	frictus or fricātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	frictus or fricātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	frictus or fricātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	fricem		fricēs		fricet		fricēmus		fricētis		fricent
	imperfect	fricārem		fricārēs		fricāret		fricārēmus		fricārētis		fricārent
	perfect	fricuerim		fricuerīs		fricuerit		fricuerīmus		fricuerītis		fricuerint
	pluperfect	fricuissem		fricuissēs		fricuisset		fricuissēmus		fricuissētis		fricuissent
passive	present	fricer		fricēris, fricēre		fricētur		fricēmur		fricēminī		fricentur
	imperfect	fricārer		fricārēris, fricārēre		fricārētur		fricārēmur		fricārēminī		fricārentur
	perfect	frictus or fricātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	frictus or fricātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		fricā		—		—		fricāte		—
	future	—		fricātō		fricātō		—		fricātōte		fricantō
passive	present	—		fricāre		—		—		fricāminī		—
	future	—		fricātor		fricātor		—		—		fricantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		fricāre			fricārī			fricāns			—
future		frictūrum esse, fricātūrum esse			frictum īrī, fricātum īrī			frictūrus, fricātūrus			fricandus
perfect		fricuisse			frictum esse, fricātum esse			—			frictus, fricātus
future perfect		—			frictum fore, fricātum fore			—			—
perfect potential		frictūrum fuisse, fricātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		fricandī		fricandō		fricandum		fricandō		frictum, fricātum		frictū, fricātū

Derived terms

• affricō
• circumfricō
• confricō
• dēfricō
• effricō
• fricātiō
• frictiō
• frictus
• infricō
• perfricō
• rē̆fricō
• suffricō

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: friài, friare, fricare, frigare
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: frec, frecu, fricari
  • Romanian: freca, frecare
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: fregare
  • Sicilian: fricari
  • Venetan: fregar
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: freâ
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: fregar
  • Occitan: fregar
  • Old French: freier, frayer
    • French: frayer
    • → Middle English: fraien
      • English: fray
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: fregar
  • Spanish: fregar
    • Papiamentu: frega
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin:
  • *frictāre
    • Italian: frettare, ⇒ fretta
  • *frictiāre
    • Catalan: fressar
    • Spanish: frezar, frisar
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: fërkoj

References

• “frĭco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “frico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "frico", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• frico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfriko]

Noun

frico f

1. vocative singular of frică