risque

Borrowed from French risqué.

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risque (comparative more risque, superlative most risque)

1. (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:

     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.

risque (countable and uncountable, plural risques)

1. Obsolete spelling of risk.

risque (third-person singular simple present risques, present participle risquing, simple past and past participle risqued)

1. Obsolete spelling of risk.

• Squier, Squire, quires, squier, squire

Inherited from Middle French risque (first attested in 1578), borrowed from Old Italian risco (modern Italian rischio).

• IPA^(key): /ʁisk/

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risque m (plural risques)

1. risk

   Synonym: danger m

   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.

• → English: risk
• → Russian: риск (risk)
  • → Armenian: ռիսկ (ṙisk)
• → Turkish: risk

risque

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

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

• quiers, requis

risque

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

risque

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