Etymograph

English

Freire

Freire comes from Old Occitan fraire ‘brother’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰréh₂tēr‘brother’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*frātēr‘brother’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrāter‘brother’
  4. Old Occitanc. 950–1500fraire‘brother’
  5. GalicianmodernFreire
  6. Spanishc. 1500–presentsame form
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2009same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰréh₂tēr‘brother’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*frātēr‘brother’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrāter‘brother’
  4. Old Occitanc. 950–1500fraire‘brother’
  5. GalicianmodernFreire
  6. Spanishc. 1500–presentsame form
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2009same form

Earliest quotation: 2009, Marc Ambinder, Dems and GOPers Treat Their Mods Differently: “That's proof to Freire that the party has room…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr ‘brother’

brother, bro, pal, brethren, bhai, 11 more

through Latin frāter ‘brother’

fraternity, fraternal, friar, fra, frater, 5 more

Today it means

name A surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician].

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr / Freire

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