Etymograph

English

frote

Frote comes from French frotter ‘to rub, chafe’, and goes back to Latin frictus ‘rubbed’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrictus‘rubbed’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrictāre
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400froter‘to stroke, wipe, rub’
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600frotter
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form‘to rub, chafe’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1577frote

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrictus‘rubbed’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrictāre
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400froter‘to stroke, wipe, rub’
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600frotter
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form‘to rub, chafe’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1577frote

Earliest quotation: 1577, Timothy Kendall: “She smelles, she kisseth, and her corps She loves…”

Linked words

through Latin frictus ‘rubbed’

frittata, 5 more

Today it means

verb To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.

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