fronce

From Middle French fronce, from Old French fronce, fronche (“frown, wrinkles, small creases in cloth”), from Frankish *hrunkja (“wrinkle”) from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sker- (“to turn, bend”). Akin to Old High German runza (“fold, wrinkle, crease”) (German Runzel (“wrinkle”)), Middle Dutch ronse (“frown”), Old Norse hrukka (“wrinkle, crease”) (Icelandic hrukka (“wrinkle, crease, ruck”)). More at ruck.

• IPA^(key): /fʁɔ̃s/

fronce f (plural fronces)

1. a frown; scowl

fronce

1. first-person singular present indicative of froncer
2. third-person singular present indicative of froncer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of froncer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of froncer
5. second-person singular imperative of froncer

• “fronce” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• foncer

fronce f (plural fronces)

1. crease; wrinkle (usually in clothes)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (fronce, supplement)

• fronche
• frunce
• frunche

fronce f (oblique plural fronces, nominative singular fronce, nominative plural fronces)

1. wrinkle (of the skin)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (fronce)