fred

From Old Occitan (compare Occitan fred, freid, freg), 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 French froid, Italian freddo, Spanish frío), from frīgeō, frīgēre (“be cold”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾət/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾɛt/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾet/

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

• “fred” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fred” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “fred” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fred” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

• IPA^(key): /fred/, [fʁ̥æð]

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

1. peace

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

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.

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

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).

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• Rhymes: -eːd

fred c

1. peace
2. a peace treaty

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.

• fred in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

fred (plural freds)

1. joy

• fredik