prise

• (verb) prize

From Old French prise

• IPA^(key): /pɹaɪz/
• Rhymes: -aɪz
• Homophones: pries, prize

prise (plural prises)

1. (obsolete) An enterprise or adventure.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

2. Obsolete form of prize.

• price

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.

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

• IPA^(key): /priːsə/, [ˈpʰʁ̥iːsə]

prise c (singular definite prisen, plural indefinite priser)

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

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

1. to praise

• “prise” in Den Danske Ordbog

From French prise.

• IPA^(key): /ˈprizə/, /pris/

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

1. (Belgium) electrical plug

• spier

From Old French prise

• IPA^(key): /pʁiz/

• audio (une prise)

  (file)

prise f (plural prises)

1. (electrical) socket, wall socket
2. (martial arts) hold
3. hold (of a climbing wall)
4. grip
5. (baseball) a strike

• en prise
• être aux prises avec

prise f

1. feminine singular of the past participle of prendre

prise

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

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

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

From pris

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

• overpriset

• “prise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• price

From the past participle of prendre.

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

1. seizure; taking; capture

• Middle French: prinse
  • French: prise