Fratze
German
editEtymology
editShortened from Fratzengesicht (“joker face”), from fratzen (“silly talk, jokes”), probably borrowed from Italian frasche (“nonsense”), plural of frasca (“vanity, caprice”).[1]
Cognate with Dutch fratsen.[2]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editFratze f (genitive Fratze, plural Fratzen)
Declension
editDeclension of Fratze [feminine]
Descendants
edit- → Dutch: frats
Noun
editFratze
References
edit- ^ “Fratze” in Duden online
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Fratze”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891