frappé

See also: frappe and frappè

English

Alternative forms

• frappe

Etymology

Borrowed from French frappé, past participle of frapper (“to hit, strike”), from Old French fraper, from Old Low Franconian *hrappan 'to jerk, snatch', from Proto-Germanic *hrappijaną (“to hurry”), from *hrapaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krob.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɹæˈpeɪ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæpeɪ/
• Rhymes: -æpeɪ, -eɪ

Noun

frappé (plural frappés)

1. A frozen fruit-flavoured dessert or appetizer.
2. Alternative form of frappe (“a liqueur or cocktail served on shaved ice”)
3. A movement where the foot is struck against the floor over the ankle in ballet or other forms of dance.

Adjective

frappé (not comparable)

1. Iced; cooled.

Anagrams

• PEPFAR, fapper

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

frappé (feminine frappée, masculine plural frappés, feminine plural frappées)

1. beaten, hit

Participle

frappé (feminine frappée, masculine plural frappés, feminine plural frappées)

1. past participle of frapper

Noun

frappé m (plural frappés)

1. (music) downbeat
2. (Switzerland) milkshake
3. Short for café frappé, iced coffee

Descendants

• → Portuguese: frapê, frapé, frappé (unadapted form)
• → Turkish: frape

Further reading

• “frappé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

frappé m (invariable)

1. milkshake