See also: froncé

French

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Etymology

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Inherited 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

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  • IPA(key): /fʁɔ̃s/
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Noun

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fronce f (plural fronces)

  1. a frown; scowl

Verb

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fronce

  1. inflection of froncer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Middle English

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Noun

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fronce

  1. Alternative form of frounce

Middle French

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Etymology

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Inherited 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

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fronce f (plural fronces)

  1. crease; wrinkle (usually in clothes)

Descendants

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  • French: fronce
  • Middle English: frounce, ffrownce, fronce, frownce

References

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (fronce, supplement)

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Frankish *hrunkiju (wrinkle) from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (fold, wrinkle), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (to turn, bend).

Noun

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fronce oblique singularf (oblique plural fronces, nominative singular fronce, nominative plural fronces)

  1. wrinkle (of the skin)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (fronce)