fronce
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French fronce, from Old French fronce, fronche (“frown, wrinkles, small creases in cloth”), from Frankish *hrunkiju (“wrinkle, rumple”) from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Akin to Old High German runza (“fold, wrinkle, crease”) (German Runzel (“wrinkle”)), Middle Dutch ronse (“frown”), Old Norse hrukka (“wrinkle, crease”) (Icelandic hrukka (“wrinkle, crease, ruck”)). More at ruck.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfronce f (plural fronces)
Verb
editfronce
- inflection of froncer:
Further reading
edit- “fronce”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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editMiddle English
editNoun
editfronce
- Alternative form of frounce
Middle French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French fronce, from Frankish *hrunkiju (“wrinkle”) from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).
Noun
editfronce f (plural fronces)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (fronce, supplement)
Old French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Frankish *hrunkiju (“wrinkle”) from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).
Noun
editfronce oblique singular, f (oblique plural fronces, nominative singular fronce, nominative plural fronces)
- wrinkle (of the skin)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Middle French: fronce
References
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (fronce)
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