reprise

See also: reprisé

English

Etymology

From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre. In some senses borrowed anew from Modern French reprise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/, /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/, sometimes even /ˌɹiˈpɹaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːz, -aɪz
• The verb is usually pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/. The pronunciation of the noun varies, but the music and fencing senses are most often pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/ (reflecting their more recent French origin), while both pronunciations are common for the other noun senses.

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)”, 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

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
• Polish: repryza (pl) f
• 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.

   • 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.

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/

• Audio:

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• 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. time, instance

   Synonym: fois

   à plusieurs reprises ― many times

   à de multiples reprises ― many times

   à maintes reprises ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   champion à six reprises ― six-time champion

2. resumption, restart
   1. (sports) start after a pause, e.g. a second-half kick-off
   2. (thence 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.

3. economic recovery
4. repetition, reiteration
   1. (music) a reprise
   2. (music) a cover, cover version
   3. (television) a repeat, rerun

Derived terms

• 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/

• Hyphenation: re‧pri‧se

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French reprise.

Noun

reprise f (plural reprises)

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

   Synonym: reposição

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

reprise

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