Where does “Freire” come from?

Freire comes from Galician freire, derived from Old Occitan fraire, from Latin frater meaning brother, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰréh₂tēr.

Ancestry of “Freire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1SpanishFreire—
2Galicianfreirefriar
3Old Occitanfrairebrother
4Latinfrāterbrother
5Proto-Italicfrātērbrother
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰréh₂tērbrother

Words derived from “Freire”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰréh₂tēr →Every word from Proto-Italic frātēr →Every word from Latin frāter →