frore

See also: fröre

English

Etymology

From Middle English froren, past participle of fresen (“to freeze”), from Old English frēosan.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Adjective

frore (comparative more frore, superlative most frore)

(archaic) Extremely cold; frozen.
- 1818, Percy Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto 9:
  We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade,
  Expiring in the frore and foggy air.
- 1883, Religion in Europe, historically considered, page 13:
  For heavenly beauty, mid perennial springs, Feels not the change, which frore sad winter brings.
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLVI, lines 15-16
  Or if one haulm whose year is o'er / Shivers on the upland frore.
- c. 1916,, Rupert Brooke, Song
  My heart all Winter lay so numb / The earth so dead and frore.

Translations

extremely cold; frozen

Finnish: jääkylmä (fi)
German: bitterkalt (de), eiskalt (de), klirrend kalt

Verb

frore

(archaic, rare) simple past tense and past participle of freeze
- c. 1834,, Mary Howitt, The Sea:
  And down below all fretted and frore,
  Were wrought the coral and the madrepore, […]

Anagrams

Ferro, ferro-

Sardinian

Alternative forms

fiore

Etymology

From earlier *flore, from Latin flōrem, accusative singular of flōs (“flower”), from Proto-Italic *flōs (accusative *flōzem), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃s (“flower, blossom”), derived from the root *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfrore/

Noun

frore m (plural frores)

flower