frette

from the Latin frigidus (cold) which gives, in Old French freid attested in 1121: freid leu, "deprived of heat" (st brandan, éd. e.g.r. waters, 1397). The evolution towards the form fraide, fraid or fré, frette is regular, see raide and roide from rigidus, but criticized at the end of the 18th century as not "Parisian" by Jean-François Féraud: "it is said, in the grammar dictionary, that cold is pronounced in two ways: froa and frè, that the first is of a formal style, and the other of conversation. Not everyone, far from it, agrees with this opinion; and the most esteemed literary critics and critics want it to be pronounced froa always."