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Etymology

From Middle English free, fre, freo, from Old English fr?o (“free”), from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“beloved, not in bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“dear, beloved”), from *preyH- (“to love, to please”). Related to friend. Cognate with West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), Low German free (“free”), German frei (“free”), Friede (“peace”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian fri (“free”), Sanskrit ????? (priyá).

Germanic and Celtic are the only Indo-European language branches in which the PIE word with the meaning of "dear, beloved" acquired the additional meaning of "free" in the sense of "not in bondage". This was an extension of the idea of "characteristic of those who are dear and beloved", in other words friends and tribe members (in contrast to unfree inhabitants from other tribes and prisoners of war, many of which were among the slaves – compare the Latin use of liberi to mean both "free persons" and "children of a family").

The verb comes from Middle English freen, freo?en, from Old English fr?on, fr?o?an (“to free; make free”).

Adjective

free (comparative freer, superlative freest)

1. (social) Unconstrained.
   1. Not imprisoned or enslaved.
   2. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust
   3. Generous; liberal.
   4. (obsolete) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.
   5. Without obligations.
   6. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed.
   7. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc.
   8. (software) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.
   9. (software) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.
2. Obtainable without any payment.
   1. (by extension, chiefly advertising slang) complimentary
3. (abstract) Unconstrained.
   1. (mathematics) Unconstrained by relators.
   2. (mathematics, logic) Unconstrained by quantifiers.
   3. (programming) Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound.
   4. (linguistics) (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
4. (physical) Unconstrained.
   1. Unobstructed, without blockages.
   2. Unattached or uncombined.
   3. Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.
   4. (botany, mycology) Not attached; loose.
5. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
6. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
7. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.
8. (Britain, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
9. (law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.

Adverb

free (comparative more free, superlative most free)

1. Without needing to pay.
2. (obsolete) Freely; willingly.

Verb

free (third-person singular simple present frees, present participle freeing, simple past and past participle freed)

1. (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release.
2. (transitive) To rid of something that confines or oppresses.

Noun

free (plural frees)

1. (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
2. free transfer
3. (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.

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