frit

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fɹɪt/ Rhymes: -ɪt === Etymology 1 === Either from French fritte, from frit (“fried”), or else from Italian fritta f (“fried”). ==== Noun ==== frit (countable and uncountable, plural frits) A pre-fused ceramic mixture used to make glass and glazes. (archaeology) Such material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. (eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age) Such material that is resistant to melting and used to physically support objects in a crucible. A material, whether ceramic, plastic or some other material, that is used for support in chemical apparatus. Any of many black enamel dots baked in a graded pattern onto the glass around the edge of a windshield. ===== Derived terms ===== frit brick fritless fritware ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== frit (third-person singular simple present frits, present participle fritting, simple past and past participle fritted) To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially. === Etymology 2 === Dialectal past participle of fright (“frighten”), formed on the model of bite:bit and light:lit. Compare the parallel formation fit (“fought”). By the late 20th century, largely confined to the Lincolnshire dialect, but adopted into political slang in the 1980s from the speeches of Grantham-born Margaret Thatcher. ==== Adjective ==== frit (comparative more frit, superlative most frit) (UK, regional, now especially politics) Frightened. 1983 Margaret Thatcher, Prime minister's questions, 19 April: The right hon. Gentleman is afraid of an election, is he? Afraid? Frightened? Frit? Could not take it? Cannot stand it? If I were going to cut and run, I should have gone after the Falklands. ==== Noun ==== frit (plural frits) (UK politics, derogatory) A politician who does not perform some action (for example answering a question or calling a vote) out of fear of losing. === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== frit (plural frits) A frit fly. === See also === frit away frit fly === Anagrams === FTIR, rift == Danish == === Adjective === frit neuter singular of fri == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French, from Latin frīctus. === Pronunciation === === Participle === frit (feminine frite, masculine plural frits, feminine plural frites) past participle of frire === Adjective === frit (feminine frite, masculine plural frits, feminine plural frites) fried ==== Related terms ==== frire friture ==== See also ==== frite === Further reading === “frit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain; proposed derivations include: From a root common to Ancient Greek θρίξ (thríx, “hair”). From Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewd-. Cognates include Latin frutex (“shrub”), Old English brēotan (“to break”), Old Irish broth (“awn”) and maybe Lithuanian brùzgas (“bush, shrub”). === Noun === frit n (indeclinable) awn ==== Synonyms ==== arista === References === “frit”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “frit”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. == Norman == === Etymology === From Old French fruit, from Latin fructus. === Pronunciation === === Noun === frit m (plural frits) (Jersey, continental) fruit ==== Derived terms ==== gardîn à frit (“orchard”) (Jersey) == Old Irish == === Etymology 1 === ==== Pronoun ==== frit second-person singular of fri ===== Alternative forms ===== friut === Etymology 2 === ==== Contraction ==== frit contraction of fri +‎ do, literally “towards/to/against/with your sg”