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/

• Audio (Southern England)

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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:

     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
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:

     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 or a role.

   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

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

Anagrams

• perries, respire

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

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^[1]:

     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 repris

   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

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.zɨ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French reprise.

Noun

reprise f (plural reprises)

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

Etymology 2

Verb

reprise

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