prise
English
Alternative forms
- (verb) prize
Etymology
From Old French prise.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɹaɪz/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪz
- Homophones: pries, prize
Noun
prise (plural prises)
- (obsolete) An enterprise or adventure.
- 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, OCLC 932931864; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, OCLC 474036557:
- In which I may record the memory Of my loves conquest, peerlesse beauties prise
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- Obsolete form of prize.
Translations
See also
- price
Verb
prise (third-person singular simple present prises, present participle prising, simple past and past participle prised)
- To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
- 1919, Sax Rohmer, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
- I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked.
- c. 1925, Jack Lindsay, translation of Lysistrata
- Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart!
- 2004, BBC News
- Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products.
- 1919, Sax Rohmer, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
- Extract something that is difficult to obtain.
- prise information out of someone
Translations
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Anagrams
- 'spire, Peris, Piers, Pires, Speir, Spier, peris, piers, pries, resip, ripes, spier, spire
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /priːsə/, [ˈpʰʁ̥iːsə]
- Rhymes: -iːsə
Noun
prise c (singular definite prisen, plural indefinite priser)
- (nautical) prize (anything captured using the rights of war)
Inflection
common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | prise | prisen | priser | priserne |
genitive | prises | prisens | prisers | prisernes |
Verb
prise (imperative pris, infinitive at prise, present tense priser, past tense priste, perfect tense har prist)
- to praise
References
- “prise” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “prise,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
From French prise.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈprizə/, /pris/
Noun
prise f (plural prises or prisen, diminutive prieske n)
- (Belgium) electrical plug
Anagrams
- spier
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁiz/
audio (une prise) (file)
Etymology 1
From Old French prise.
Noun
prise f (plural prises)
- (electrical) socket, wall socket (also prise électrique)
- (martial arts) hold
- (climbing) hold (of a climbing wall)
- grip
- (baseball) a strike
- a taking or capture
- la prise de la Bastille
- (film) a take
Derived terms
- en prise
- être aux prises
- lâcher prise
- prise de conscience
- prise de courant
- prise de position
- prise de sang
- prise de terre
- prise de vue
- prise d'otage
- prise en charge
- priser
- reprise
- retrait sur des prises
- zone de prises
Descendants
- → Greek: πρίζα (príza)
- → Dutch: prise
- → Turkish: priz
Participle
prise f sg
- feminine singular of the past participle of prendre
Verb
prise
- inflection of priser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “prise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- péris, pires, pries, priés, ripes, ripés, spire
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From pris.
Verb
prise (imperative pris, present tense priser, passive prises, simple past and past participle prisa or priset)
- to price (something)
- prise seg ut av markedet - price oneself out of the market
Derived terms
- overpriset
Etymology 2
From Old Norse prísa, from Middle Low German prisen, from Old French priser.
Verb
prise (imperative pris, present tense priser, passive prises, simple past priste, past participle prist, present participle prisende)
- to extol, praise, commend, laud, glorify
References
- “prise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “prise_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “prise_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Old French
Alternative forms
- price
Etymology
From the past participle of prendre.
Noun
prise f (oblique plural prises, nominative singular prise, nominative plural prises)
- seizure; taking; capture
Descendants
- Middle French: prinse
- French: prise