fr.

plural frr.

1. abbreviationAbbreviation of fragment.

   A formidable case, but the matter is not as simple as it appears. Cypria fr. 1 has long played a role in another comparative project: Indo-Europeanists have noted its resonances with a very different poem.

   2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 4

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   Second, the poetess includes her own name (v. 20) and refers to herself in the first person, suggesting that the poem was composed for a real-life situation and an actual person;² and, as in frr. 31 and 94 (LP) (in conjunction with Plu. Luc. 18.9), the situation in which the poetess finds herself constitutes unambiguous evidence that she was a "lesbian" in sensu technico.³

   1993, J. C. B. Petropoulos, “Sappho the Sorceress: Another Look at fr. 1 (LP)”, in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, volume 97, Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 43

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1. abbreviationlawAbbreviation of France.
2. abbreviationAbbreviation of Friday.

alternative Fr · alternative FR

1. abbreviationAbbreviation of Father, a title given to priests.

   There, a Franciscan friar named Andrés Ivars asked that Fr. Císcar hear his confession before the friar was executed be firing squad.

   2017 December 16, “These priests were martyred for refusing to violate the seal of confession”, in Catholic News Agency