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Inherited from Latin frīgidus (“cold, cool, chilling”) (through a contracted Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form fridus, attested in a Pompeian inscription, or frigdus, fricdus, in the Appendix Probi; compare Occitan fred/freid/freg, French froid, Italian freddo, Spanish frío), from frīgeō, frīgēre (“be cold”).

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈfɾe̞t]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈfɾət]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfɾɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈfɾet]

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fred (feminine freda, masculine plural freds, feminine plural fredes)

1. cold, cool

   Antonym: calent

fred m or f (plural freds)

1. cold

   Antonym: calor

   tinc fred ― I'm cold

• The feminine form of the noun is dialectal (Central, Nord) and most likely derived from Spanish.

• “fred”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “fred”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “fred” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “fred”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From Old Danish frith, from Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz, cognate with Swedish fred, frid, German Frieden, Dutch vrede.

• IPA^(key): /freð/, [ˈfʁ̥æð]

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fred c (singular definite freden, not used in plural form)

1. peace

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /freːˀð/, [ˈfʁ̥æˀð], [ˈfʁ̥æðˀ]

fred

1. imperative of frede

• “fred” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz.

• IPA^(key): /freːd/

fred m (definite singular freden)

1. peace

• fredelig

• “fred” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz.

• IPA^(key): /freː/, /freːd/

fred m (definite singular freden)

1. peace

• fredfull
• fred og ro
• fredsavtale
• fredsmarsj

• “fred” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• fraid (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader)
• freid (Sursilvan, Surmiran)

From Latin frīgidus (“cold, cool, chilling”) (through a contracted Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form fridus, attested in a Pompeian inscription, or frigdus, fricdus), from frīgeō, frīgēre (“be cold”).

fred m (feminine singular freda, masculine plural freds, feminine plural fredas)

1. (Sutsilvan) cold

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) frestg
• (Puter) fras-ch
• (Vallader) frais-ch

From Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (cf. German Low German: Freed, Freden, as another possible influence).

• IPA^(key): /freːd/

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• Rhymes: -eːd

fred c

1. peace
2. a peace treaty

   freden i Versailles ― the treaty of Versailles

Fred is peace as opposite of war or similar concrete conflicts. For peace as opposite to chaos, disturbance or anxiety the word frid is used.

• arbetsfred

• “fred”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• fred in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• dref

fred (genitive freda, plural freds)

1. joy
   • 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 21:

     O fred kion!

     Oh, what joy!

• fredik