reprise

Borrowed from Old French reprise, from reprendre.

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/, /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/
• Rhymes: -aɪz
• The music and fencing meanings are pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/, reflecting its French origins; the everyday meaning of a recurrence of an action is often pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/, by similarity to words like rise and prise.

reprise (plural reprises)

1. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
2. (music) A repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme.
3. (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
4. A taking by way of retaliation.

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5. (law, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.

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6. A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
7. (construction) In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.

reprise (third-person singular simple present reprises, present participle reprising, simple past and past participle reprised)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XI:

     How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize.

2. To repeat or resume an action

   The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.

3. (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.

• (repeat an action): repeat; see also Thesaurus:reiterate
• (recompense): compensate, reimburse; see also Thesaurus:reimburse

• reprieve
• reprehend

• reprisal

• “reprise” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ISBN 978-0-544-45445-3.

• perries, respire

From the feminine of repris.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pʁiz/

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reprise f (plural reprises)

1. time, instance

   à plusieurs reprises

   many times

   champion à six reprises

   six-time champion

2. (sports) second-half kick-off
3. (music) reprise
4. (music) cover, cover version
5. (television) repeat, rerun

• (instance): fois

reprise

1. feminine singular of the past participle of reprendre

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

• pierres, prières, respire, respiré

Borrowed from French reprise.

• IPA^(key): /reˈprizi/

reprise f (plural reprises)

1. rerun or re-airing of a TV program

reprise

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of reprisar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of reprisar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of reprisar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of reprisar