risque
See also: risqué
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
risque (comparative more risque, superlative most risque)
- (US) Alternative form of risqué
- 2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- But despite being the first episode of The Simpsons to feature Marge’s naked butt, there’s nothing particularly risque about any of the nudity—if anything, the pitchfork-wielding farmer’s threat of “ass-forking” feels the most over the line.
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
risque (countable and uncountable, plural risques)
- Obsolete spelling of risk
VerbEdit
risque (third-person singular simple present risques, present participle risquing, simple past and past participle risqued)
- Obsolete spelling of risk
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Middle French risque (first attested in 1578), borrowed from Old Italian risco (modern Italian rischio).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
risque m (plural risques)
- risk
- le risque d'une nouvelle guerre mondiale
- the risk of a new world war
- Je n'aime pas trop prendre des risques.
- I don't like taking risks that much.
- Synonym: danger m
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
VerbEdit
risque
- inflection of risquer:
Further readingEdit
- “risque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
PortugueseEdit
VerbEdit
risque
- inflection of riscar: