frise

From French frise.

frise c (singular definite frisen, plural indefinite friser)

1. (architecture) frieze

• “frise” in Den Danske Ordbog

Via Middle French frise, derived in a textile sense from friser (“to curl”) or related to the demonym Frisian due to import via Northern ships, and in an architecture sense from an Upper Italian fris f, Medieval Latin frisum, frisium, frigium, frixum, of controversial origin, possibly from multiple sources, Arabic إِفْرِيز‎ (ʔifrīz, “king beam, cornice”) and Latin opus phrygium (“a kind of embroidery”, literally “Phrygian work”), the demonym Frisian and terms related to the textile term in a transferred sense.

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frise f (plural frises)

1. border
2. frieze

• cheval de frise
• frise chronologique

• “frise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• fiers
• refis

frise m (definite singular frisen, indefinite plural friser, definite plural frisene)

1. (architecture) a frieze

• “frise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

frise

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

frise

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