# prise
## English
### Alternative forms

* (verb) prize

### Etymology

From the Middle English noun prise (“taking of something”), from Old French prise (“seizure; taking; capture”), past participle of prendre (“to take”). Doublet of prize.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɹaɪz/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪz
* Homophones: pries, prize

### Verb

prise (third-person singular simple present prises, present participle prising, simple past and past participle prised)
* 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.
* Extract something that is difficult to obtain.
    prise information out of someone

#### Translations
### Noun

prise (plural prises)
* (obsolete) An enterprise or adventure.
** 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:In which I may record the memory Of my loves conquest, peerlesse beauties prise
* Obsolete form of prize.

#### See also

* price
* prise de fer

### References

* ↑ “prise, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* 'spire, Peris, Piers, Pires, Speir, Spier, peris, piers, pries, resip, ripes, spier, spire

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /priːsə/, [ˈpʰʁ̥iːsə]
* Rhymes: -iːsə

### Noun

prise c (singular definite prisen, plural indefinite priser)
* (nautical) prize (anything captured using the rights of war)

#### Inflection
### Verb

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

### References

* “prise” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “prise,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

From French prise.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈprizə/, /pris/

### Noun

prise f (plural prises or prisen, diminutive prieske n)
* (Belgium) electrical outlet, wall socket

### Anagrams

* spier

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʁiz/
* Audio; “une prise”:(file)

### Etymology 1

From Old French prise.

#### Noun

prise f (plural prises)
* (electrical) socket, wall socket (also prise électrique)
* (martial arts) hold
* (climbing) hold (of a climbing wall)
* grip
* (baseball) a strike
* a taking or capture
    la prise de la Bastille
* (film) a take

##### Derived terms

* en prise
* être aux prises
* lâcher prise
* prise de conscience
* prise de courant
* prise de position
* prise de sang
* prise de terre
* prise de vue
* prise d’otage
* prise en charge
* priser
* reprise
* retrait sur des prises
* zone de prises

##### Descendants

* → Dutch: prise
* → Greek: πρίζα (príza)
* → Persian: پریز (periz)
* → Romanian: priză
* → Turkish: priz

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

prise f sg
* feminine singular of pris

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

prise
* inflection of priser:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From pris.

#### Verb

prise (imperative pris, present tense priser, passive prises, simple past and past participle prisa or priset)
* to price (something)
    prise seg ut av markedet - price oneself out of the market

##### Derived terms

* overpriset

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse prísa, from Middle Low German prisen, from Old French priser.

#### Verb

prise (imperative pris, present tense priser, passive prises, simple past priste, past participle prist, present participle prisende)
* to extol, praise, commend, laud, glorify

### References

* “prise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “prise_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “prise_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* price

### Etymology

From the past participle of prendre.

### Noun

prise oblique singular, f (oblique plural prises, nominative singular prise, nominative plural prises)
* seizure; taking; capture

#### Descendants

* Middle French: prinse
** French: prise