reprise

reprise

See also: reprisé

English

Etymology

From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/, /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/

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• Rhymes: -aɪz
• The music and fencing meanings are pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/, reflecting its French origins; the everyday meaning of a recurrence of an action is often pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/, by similarity to words like rise and prise.

• Regardless of noun pronunciation, the verb form is typically pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/ in most dialects.

Noun

reprise (plural reprises)

1. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
2. (music) A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
3. (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
4. A taking by way of retaliation.
   • 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number(s))”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 460679539:

     Your care about your banks infers a fear
     Of threatening floods ,and inundations near;
     If so, a just reprise would only be
     Of what the land usurped upon the sea

5. (law, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes[1]
6. A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
7. (construction) In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.

Translations

repetition — see repetition

(music) A repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme

Bulgarian: реприз m (repriz) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: herneming (nl) f, reprise (nl) f Finnish: toisto (fi) French: reprise (fr) f Italian: ripresa (it) f Malay: repris, ripresa Russian: репри́за (ru) f (repríza)

(fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position

Verb

reprise (third-person singular simple present reprises, present participle reprising, simple past and past participle reprised)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize.

2. To repeat or resume an action

   The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.

3. (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.

Synonyms

• (repeat an action): repeat; see also Thesaurus:reiterate
• (recompense): compensate, reimburse; see also Thesaurus:reimburse

Related terms

• reprehend
• reprieve
• reprisal

Translations

To repeat or resume an action

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: hernemen (nl) Finnish: toistaa (fi), uusia (fi) Russian: повторя́ть (ru) (povtorjátʹ)

See also

• reprisal

Further reading

1. 1859, Alexander Mansfield, Law Dictionary

• “reprise”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• perries, respire

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from the French reprise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rəˈpriː.zə/
• Hyphenation: re‧pri‧se
• Rhymes: -iːzə

Noun

reprise f (plural reprises)

1. A repeat, resumption.

   Synonyms: herhaling, herneming

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French

Etymology

From the feminine of repris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pʁiz/

• Audio

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Noun

reprise f (plural reprises)

1. a time, instance

   Synonym: fois

   à plusieurs reprises

   many times

   champion à six reprises

   six-time champion

2. (sports) a second-half kick-off
3. (music) a reprise
4. (music) a cover, cover version
5. (television) a repeat, rerun
6. (boxing) a round

   2020 December 13, rfi, Boxe: Joshua met KO Pulev et reste champion du monde des lourds‎:

   Le boxeur britannique Anthony Joshua a battu ce samedi 12 décembre à Londres, le Bulgare Kubrat Pulev, par KO à la 9^e reprise.

   The British boxer Anthony Joshua beat the Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev by KO during the 9th round this saturday the 12th of december in London.

Derived terms

• à maintes reprises
• reprise de volée

Participle

reprise f sg

1. feminine singular of the past participle of reprendre

   Cette information a été reprise par les principaux canaux médiatiques.

   This information was repeated by the main media outlets.

Further reading

• “reprise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• pierres, prières, respire, respiré

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈpɾi.zi/ [heˈpɾi.zi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈpɾi.zi/ [heˈpɾi.zi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈpɾi.zi/ [χeˈpɾi.zi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈpɾi.ze/ [heˈpɾi.ze]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨˈpɾi.z(ɨ)/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French reprise.

Noun

reprise f (plural reprises)

1. rerun (a re-airing of a TV program)

Verb

reprise

1. inflection of reprisar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative