different between frosh vs initiation

English

Pronunciation

• (US)
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /f???/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /f???/

Etymology 1

From Middle English frossh, frosch, from Old English fros? (“frog”), from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz (“frog”), from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“to jump, hop”). Cognate with West Frisian froask (“frog”), Dutch vors (“frog”), German Frosch (“frog”), Norwegian frosk (“frog”), Icelandic froskur (“frog”). See also frosk, frog.

Noun

frosh (plural froshes)

1. (now dialectal) A frog.
   • 1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356:

     The mud hath in it certaine seed whereof greene froshes rise.

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of freshman +? sophomore.

Noun

frosh (plural froshes or frosh)

1. (colloquial) A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.

   That frosh is really getting on my nerves!

Synonyms

• underclassman
• newbie
• fresher (UK)

Derived terms

• prefrosh

Translations

Verb

frosh (third-person singular simple present froshes, present participle froshing, simple past and past participle froshed)

1. (transitive, slang) To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.

   This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.

2. (transitive, slang) To damage through incompetence.

   Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.

Synonyms

• (initiate): haze

Derived terms

• froshing

Translations

Middle English

Noun

frosh

1. Alternative form of frossh

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French initiation, from Latin initi?ti?.Morphologically initiate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.n?.?i.?e?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

initiation (countable and uncountable, plural initiations)

1. The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced

2. The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.
3. (chemistry) The first step of transcription or of transduction.

Synonyms

• (act of initiating): beginning, start

Antonyms

• (act of initiating): conclusion, end

Related terms

• initial
• initiate
• initiationism

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French initiation, borrowed from Latin initi?ti?, initi?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ni.sja.sj??/

Noun

initiation f (plural initiations)

1. initiation

Related terms

• initier