frise

See also: Frise and frisé

Danish

Etymology

From French frise.

Noun

frise c (singular definite frisen, plural indefinite friser)

1. (architecture) frieze

Declension

Declension of frise

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	frise	frisen	friser	friserne
genitive	frises	frisens	frisers	frisernes

References

• “frise” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Via Middle French frise, derived in a textile sense from friser (“to curl”) or related to the demonym Frisian due to import via Northern ships, and in an architecture sense from an Upper Italian fris f, Medieval Latin frisum, frisium, frigium, frixum, of controversial origin, possibly from multiple sources, Arabic إِفْرِيز (ʔifrīz, “king beam, cornice”) and Latin opus phrygium (“a kind of embroidery”, literally “Phrygian work”), the demonym Frisian and terms related to the textile term in a transferred sense.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁiz/

• Audio:

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Noun

frise f (plural frises)

1. frieze
2. border

   Synonyms: bord, bordure

Derived terms

• cheval de frise
• frise chronologique

 

Further reading

• “frise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• fiers
• refis

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

frise m (definite singular frisen, indefinite plural friser, definite plural frisene)

1. (architecture) a frieze

References

• “frise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

frise

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

Spanish

Verb

frise

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