refraindre
Old French
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to hold back, to restrain
- (reflexive) to restrain oneself, to refrain
Etymology
Inherited from Latin *refrangere, refringere.
Origin
Latin
refringere
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- refrain English
- revigorate English
- *recaptāre Latin
- *refrangere Latin
- *reiterāre Latin
- *repoenitere Latin
- *resaliō Latin
- lūstrum Latin
- re- Latin
- recompenso, recompensare Latin
- refringere Latin
- refringo, refringere Latin
- remōnstrō Latin
- repaenitēre Latin
- resipisco Latin
- retornare Latin
- Refrain German
- re- Hungarian
- ra- Italian
- re- Italian
- refrain Italian
- ri- Italian
- re- French
- refrain French
- renier French
- retroussé French
- ré- French
- révérer French
- re- Spanish, Castilian
- recomendar Spanish, Castilian
- reconstruir Spanish, Castilian
- refrán Spanish, Castilian
- repujar Spanish, Castilian
- *wer- Proto-Indo-European
- *wret- Proto-Indo-European
- re- Norwegian Bokmål
- refreng Norwegian Bokmål
- recomendar Portuguese
- refrão Portuguese
- re- Polish
- re- Norwegian Nynorsk
- refreng Norwegian Nynorsk
- refræn Danish
- re- Old French
- recommender Old French
- refrain Old French
- refrait Old French
- res- Old French
- re- Esperanto
- re- Catalan, Valencian
- recomendar Galician
- refollo Galician
- relustro Galician
- răs- Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ρεφρέν Greek (modern)
- refrain Middle French
- refreindre Middle French
- refrään Estonian
- ar Old Portuguese
- re- Old Portuguese
- recear Old Portuguese
- remedar Old Portuguese
- re- Occitan
- *wre Proto-Italic
- refrener xno
- relentir xno
- reaktsiya Crimean Tatar
- reanimatsiya Crimean Tatar
- rekonstruktsiya Crimean Tatar
- repatriatsiya Crimean Tatar
- reproduktor Crimean Tatar
- racumandà Istriot
- re- Interlingua