fronce
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle French fronce, from Old French fronce, fronche (“frown, wrinkles, small creases in cloth”), from Frankish *hrunkiju (“wrinkle, rumple”) from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“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.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fronce f (plural fronces)
Verb[edit]
fronce
- inflection of froncer:
Further reading[edit]
- “fronce”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
fronce
- Alternative form of frounce
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French fronce, from Frankish *hrunkiju (“wrinkle”) from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).
Noun[edit]
fronce f (plural fronces)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (fronce, supplement)
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Frankish *hrunkiju (“wrinkle”) from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).
Noun[edit]
fronce oblique singular, f (oblique plural fronces, nominative singular fronce, nominative plural fronces)
- wrinkle (of the skin)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Middle French: fronce
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (fronce)
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
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