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See also: reprisé
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre. In some senses borrowed anew from Modern French reprise.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/, /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/, sometimes even /ˌɹiˈpɹaɪz/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːz, -aɪz
- The verb is usually pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/. The pronunciation of the noun varies, but the music and fencing senses are most often pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/ (reflecting their more recent French origin), while both pronunciations are common for the other noun senses.
Noun
[edit]reprise (plural reprises)
- A recurrence or resumption of an action.
- (music) A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
- (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
- A taking by way of retaliation.
- 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
- Your care about your banks infers a fear
Of threatening floods ,and inundations near;
If so, a just reprise would only be
Of what the land usurped upon the sea
- (law, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.[1]
- A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
- (construction) In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.
Translations
[edit]repetition — see repetition
(music) a repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme
(fencing) a renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position
Verb
[edit]reprise (third-person singular simple present reprises, present participle reprising, simple past and past participle reprised)
- (obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize.
- To repeat or resume an action or a role.
- The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.
- 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 161:
- The notion of a "psychological wage" originated with Du Bois, was later employed by Fredrickson, and has been reprised in the context of northern industrialism by Roediger.
- (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.
Synonyms
[edit]- (repeat an action): repeat; see also Thesaurus:reiterate
- (recompense): compensate, reimburse; see also Thesaurus:reimburse
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to repeat or resume an action
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “reprise”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from the French reprise.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]reprise f (plural reprises)
- a repeat, resumption
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the feminine of repris.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]reprise f (plural reprises)
- time, instance
- Synonym: fois
- à plusieurs reprises ― many times
- à de multiples reprises ― many times
- à maintes reprises ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- champion à six reprises ― six-time champion
- resumption, restart
- (sports) start after a pause, e.g. a second-half kick-off
- (thence boxing) a round
- 2020 December 13, rfi, Boxe: Joshua met KO Pulev et reste champion du monde des lourds[1]:
- Le boxeur britannique Anthony Joshua a battu ce samedi 12 décembre à Londres, le Bulgare Kubrat Pulev, par KO à la 9e reprise.
- The British boxer Anthony Joshua beat the Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev by KO during the 9th round this saturday the 12th of december in London.
- economic recovery
- Synonym: relance
- repetition, reiteration
- (music) a reprise
- (music) a cover, cover version
- (television) a repeat, rerun
Derived terms
[edit]Participle
[edit]reprise f sg
- feminine singular of repris
- Cette information a été reprise par les principaux canaux médiatiques.
- This information was repeated by the main media outlets.
Further reading
[edit]- “reprise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: re‧pri‧se
Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]reprise f (plural reprises)
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]reprise
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