frise
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
frise c (singular definite frisen, plural indefinite friser)
Declension edit
Declension of frise
References edit
- “frise” in Den Danske Ordbog
French edit
Etymology edit
Via Middle French frise, derived in a textile sense from friser (“to curl”) or related to the demonym Frisian due to import via Northern ships, and in an architecture sense from an Upper Italian fris f, Medieval Latin frisum, frisium, frigium, frixum, of controversial origin, possibly from multiple sources, Arabic إِفْرِيز (ʔifrīz, “king beam, cornice”) and Latin opus phrygium (“a kind of embroidery”, literally “Phrygian work”), the demonym Frisian and terms related to the textile term in a transferred sense.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
frise f (plural frises)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “frise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
frise m (definite singular frisen, indefinite plural friser, definite plural frisene)
- (architecture) a frieze
References edit
- “frise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
frise
- inflection of frisar:
Spanish edit
Verb edit
frise
- inflection of frisar: