prise

See also: Prise, prisé, and prìse

English

Alternative forms

• (verb) prize

Etymology

From the Middle English noun prise (“taking of something”), from Old French prise (“seizure; taking; capture”), past participle of prendre (“to take”). Doublet of prize.

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^[1]:

     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

to force open with a lever, to pry

• Czech: páčit (cs) impf, vypáčit pf
• Finnish: vääntää (fi), kangeta (fi)
• Georgian: ბერკეტით გახსნა (berḳeṭit gaxsna)
• German: aufstemmen (de)
• Maori: whakatiriwhana
• Russian: взламывать (ru) (vzlamyvatʹ), вскрывать (ru) (vskryvatʹ)
• Swedish: bända (upp)

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:

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

2. Obsolete form of prize.

Translations

obsolete: an enterprise

prize — see prize

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/, [ˈpʰʁ̥iːsə]
• Rhymes: -iːsə

Noun

prise c (singular definite prisen, plural indefinite priser)

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

Inflection

Declension of prise

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	prise	prisen	priser	priserne
genitive	prises	prisens	prisers	prisernes

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

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

• en prise
• être aux prises
• lâcher prise
• prise de conscience
• prise de courant
• prise de position
• prise de sang
• prise de terre
• prise de vue
• prise d’otage
• prise en charge
• priser
• reprise
• retrait sur des prises
• zone de prises

 

Descendants

• → Dutch: prise
• → Greek: πρίζα (príza)
• → Persian: پریز (periz)
• → 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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 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