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frequent

/fˈɹikwənt/FREE-kwuhnt
/fˈɹikwənt/FREE-kwuhnt

Meaningcrowded; happening often

Common meaning: occurring again and again

Other meanings: to go to a place a lot

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√BHARK or BHRAK‘shut in, stop up, cram’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 233, p. 738 · scan
  2. Latinfrequēns, -entis‘crowded’
  3. Old Frenchfrequentsource
  4. Englishfrequent‘occurring again and again’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin frequēns ‘crowded; happening often’.

Roots

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