priser

English

Noun

priser (plural prisers)

  1. A tool for prising something open.
    • 1863, J. Pascoe, The Brigantine (page 263)
      "Well, then, here goes to shatter his timbers," said Grasper, with a lively tone; and seizing, as he spoke, a weighty crowbar from Dan, he assailed the door. […] "Here, Dan," said he, " bring another priser."
  2. Obsolete form of prizer.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for priser in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

priser c

  1. plural indefinite of pris
  2. plural indefinite of prise

Verb

priser

  1. present of prise

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pʁi.ze/

Etymology 1

Verbalization of prise, itself a deverbalization of prise, the feminine past participle of prendre (“to take”).

Verb

priser

  1. (transitive) to snuff, take snuff (to inhale a drug or other substance through the nose)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Late Latin pretiāre, pretiō (“to appraise”), from Latin pretium (“price”). Unrelated to pris, the past participle of prendre, although it might be remotivated in that way by contemporary French speakers.

Verb

priser

  1. (transitive) to price (fix a price according to market forces)
  2. (transitive) to prize (consider something valuable)

Conjugation
Conjugation of priser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle prisant
/pʁi.zɑ̃/
past participle prisé
/pʁi.ze/
infinitive
simple priser
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple prisant
/pʁi.zɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present prise
/pʁiz/		 prises
/pʁiz/		 prise
/pʁiz/		 prisons
/pʁi.zɔ̃/		 prisez
/pʁi.ze/		 prisent
/pʁiz/
imperfect prisais
/pʁi.zɛ/		 prisais
/pʁi.zɛ/		 prisait
/pʁi.zɛ/		 prisions
/pʁi.zjɔ̃/		 prisiez
/pʁi.zje/		 prisaient
/pʁi.zɛ/
past historic2 prisai
/pʁi.ze/		 prisas
/pʁi.za/		 prisa
/pʁi.za/		 prisâmes
/pʁi.zam/		 prisâtes
/pʁi.zat/		 prisèrent
/pʁi.zɛʁ/
future priserai
/pʁiz.ʁe/		 priseras
/pʁiz.ʁa/		 prisera
/pʁiz.ʁa/		 priserons
/pʁiz.ʁɔ̃/		 priserez
/pʁiz.ʁe/		 priseront
/pʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
conditional priserais
/pʁiz.ʁɛ/		 priserais
/pʁiz.ʁɛ/		 priserait
/pʁiz.ʁɛ/		 priserions
/pʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/		 priseriez
/pʁi.zə.ʁje/		 priseraient
/pʁiz.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present prise
/pʁiz/		 prises
/pʁiz/		 prise
/pʁiz/		 prisions
/pʁi.zjɔ̃/		 prisiez
/pʁi.zje/		 prisent
/pʁiz/
imperfect2 prisasse
/pʁi.zas/		 prisasses
/pʁi.zas/		 prisât
/pʁi.za/		 prisassions
/pʁi.za.sjɔ̃/		 prisassiez
/pʁi.za.sje/		 prisassent
/pʁi.zas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — prise
/pʁiz/		 — prisons
/pʁi.zɔ̃/		 prisez
/pʁi.ze/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

priser m

  1. indefinite plural of pris

Verb

priser

  1. present tense of prise

Swedish

Noun

priser

  1. indefinite plural of pris
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