prise

English

Alternative forms

• (verb) prize

Etymology

From Old French prise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹaɪz/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪz
• Homophones: pries, prize

Verb

prise (third-person singular simple present prises, present participle prising, simple past and past participle prised)

1. To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
   • 1919, Sax Rohmer, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper:

     I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked.

   • c. 1925, Jack Lindsay, translation of Lysistrata:

     Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart!

   • 2004, BBC News‎:

     Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products.

2. Extract something that is difficult to obtain.

   prise information out of someone

Translations

Noun

prise (plural prises)

1. (obsolete) An enterprise or adventure.
   • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. , London: [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas , 1927, →OCLC:

     In which I may record the memory Of my loves conquest, peerlesse beauties prise

2. Obsolete form of prize.

Translations

See also

• price
• prise de fer

Anagrams

• 'spire, Peris, Piers, Pires, Speir, Spier, peris, piers, pries, resip, ripes, spier, spire

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /priːsə/,
• Rhymes: -iːsə

Noun

prise c (singular definite prisen, plural indefinite priser)

1. (nautical) prize (anything captured using the rights of war)

Inflection

Verb

prise (imperative pris, infinitive at prise, present tense priser, past tense priste, perfect tense har prist)

1. to praise

References

• “prise” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “prise,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From French prise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprizə/, /pris/

Noun

prise f (plural prises or prisen, diminutive prieske n)

1. (Belgium) electrical outlet, wall socket

Anagrams

• spier

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

prise

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁiz/

• audio (une prise)

  (file)

Etymology 1

From Old French prise.

Noun

prise f (plural prises)

1. (electrical) socket, wall socket (also prise électrique)
2. (martial arts) hold
3. (climbing) hold (of a climbing wall)
4. grip
5. (baseball) a strike
6. a taking or capture

   la prise de la Bastille

7. (film) a take

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Dutch: prise
• → Greek: πρίζα (príza)
• → Persian: پریز
• → Romanian: priză
• → Turkish: priz

Etymology 2

Participle

prise f sg

1. feminine singular of pris

Etymology 3

Verb

prise

1. inflection of priser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “prise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Anagrams

• péris, pires, pries, priés, ripes, ripés, spire

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From pris.

Verb

prise (imperative pris, present tense priser, passive prises, simple past and past participle prisa or priset)

1. to price (something)

   prise seg ut av markedet - price oneself out of the market

Derived terms

• overpriset

Etymology 2

From Old Norse prísa, from Middle Low German prisen, from Old French priser.

Verb

prise (imperative pris, present tense priser, passive prises, simple past priste, past participle prist, present participle prisende)

1. to extol, praise, commend, laud, glorify

References

• “prise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “prise_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “prise_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Old French

Alternative forms

• price

Etymology

From the past participle of prendre.

Noun

prise oblique singular, f (oblique plural prises, nominative singular prise, nominative plural prises)

1. seizure; taking; capture

Descendants

• Middle French: prinse
  • French: prise