reprise
See also: reprisé
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/, /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/
Audio (Southern England) (file) Audio (Southern England) (file) - 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 edit
reprise (plural reprises)
- A recurrence or resumption of an action.
- (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.
- (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
- A taking by way of retaliation.
- 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] 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
- (law, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes[1]
- A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
- (construction) In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.
Translations edit
repetition — see repetition
(music) A repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme
(fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position
Verb edit
reprise (third-person singular simple present reprises, present participle reprising, simple past and past participle reprised)
- (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.
- 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.
- 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 161:
- The notion of a "psychological wage" originated with Du Bois, was later employed by Fredrickson, and has been reprised in the context of northern industrialism by Roediger.
- (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.
Synonyms edit
- (repeat an action): repeat; see also Thesaurus:reiterate
- (recompense): compensate, reimburse; see also Thesaurus:reimburse
Related terms edit
Translations edit
To repeat or resume an action
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “reprise”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from the French reprise.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
reprise f (plural reprises)
- A repeat, resumption.
French edit
Etymology edit
From the feminine of repris.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
reprise f (plural reprises)
- a time, instance
- Synonym: fois
- à plusieurs reprises
- many times
- champion à six reprises
- six-time champion
- (sports) a second-half kick-off
- (music) a reprise
- (music) a cover, cover version
- (television) a repeat, rerun
- (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 9e 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 edit
Participle edit
reprise f sg
- 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 edit
- “reprise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: re‧pri‧se
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
reprise f (plural reprises)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
reprise