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Translation

to fry

Word origin

From Latin frigere, to roast or fry, by way of French frire and Italian friggere. English fry and French frites come from the same place.

Origin
Latin
Root
frigere
English cognates
fry, fritter

Examples

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He fried two eggs.

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We fried the fish in hot oil.

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Fried fish with potatoes makes a good dinner.

is cooking in hot fat, as against , which is cooking in general, , baking, and , roasting. The four are worth keeping apart - Esperanto splits them exactly where English does.

A false seam. looks like it has been assembled out of frit- plus the passive participle -it- plus an ending, and only half of that is true. really is frit- + -it- + -a, fried. But the plain infinitive is NOT fri- plus -it-: the root is frit- all the way, and there is no verb frii. Same shape, different structure, and the only way to tell is to know whether the leftover piece is a real root.

Useful derivations: o a fried thing, o a fryer, o a deep-fat pan. Chips are fritoj or , depending on how formal you are feeling.

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This word is part of lesson 45.