Fratze
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German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Shortened from Fratzengesicht (“joker face”), from fratzen (“silly talk, jokes”), probably borrowed from Italian frasche (“nonsense”), plural of frasca (“vanity, caprice”).[1]
Cognate with Dutch fratsen.[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Fratze f (genitive Fratze, plural Fratzen)
Declension[edit]
Declension of Fratze [feminine]
Descendants[edit]
- → Dutch: frats
Noun[edit]
Fratze
References[edit]
- ^ “Fratze” in Duden online
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Fratze”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891